A federal judge in the US state of Delaware issued a preliminary ruling preventing a startup called Operation Bluebird from using the name Twitter and some trademarks associated with the platform in its new services.
The decision came after a move by Elon Musk's company, X Corp, which considered... The use of name and tags associated with Twitter can cause confusion among users about the relationship between the two platforms.
According to Reuters, the judge agreed to prevent the startup company from using the name Twitter and some of the trademarks associated with it, but in return, he rejected X’s request to prevent it from Using Twitter's blue bird logo.
The case goes back to the startup’s attempt to launch a social media platform with a clear link to the name Twitter, after the old brand became historically linked to the X platform, which Musk acquired and renamed.
And it reveals The dispute is about the continued legal and commercial value of the trademarks associated with the name Twitter, despite changing the name of the platform to X.
