Photo service Twitpic has announced that it will close on September 25th after Twitter threatened to cut off its API access if it didn’t drop its trademark filing. Here’s the relevant part from the post: A few weeks ago Twitter contacted our legal demanding that we abandon our trademark application or risk losing access to their API. This came as a shock to us since Twitpic has been around since early 2008, and our trademark application has been in the USPTO since 2009. Twitpic originally filed for its trademark in 2009. The company had recently overcome its last obstacle to...
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