The Twitter prospectus was a juicy read for reasons other than demonstrating a lack of gender diversity amongst its board members. In the Duets Blog, Draeke Weseman explains that an S-1 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission also shed light into Twitter’s deepest fears — that its trademarked Tweets may become generic.
Twitter warned investors: “There is a risk that the word “Tweet” could become so commonly used that it becomes synonymous with any short comment posted publicly on the internet, and if this happens, we could lose protection of this trademark.”
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