X moves to head-off claim on ‘abandoned’ Twitter branding
20 December 2025
Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch:
Elon Musk’s X is updating its Terms of Service to indicate it still lays claim to the “Twitter” trademark. The move to add this detail to the company’s terms follows an announcement from a Virginia-based startup, which recently filed an application to trademark the term “Twitter.”
No surprises there. Anyone hoping to obtain the rights to the Twitter trademark must know they face an uphill struggle to do so.
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