US startup seeks to reclaim Twitter trademarks ‘abandoned’ by Musk’s X

A fledgling social media platform has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel trademarks for Twitter so it can take them for itself, contending that billionaire Elon Musk’s X Corp has abandoned them.

The Virginia-based startup, Operation Bluebird, said in its December 2 petition that it wants to be allowed to use “Twitter” and “tweet” for a rival social media platform called “twitter.new.” It also filed an application to trademark “Twitter.”