News Summary

Elon Musk’s company, X, has updated its Terms of Service to assert its claim to the ‘Twitter’ trademark, following a trademark application by the Virginia-based startup Operation Bluebird. This startup, led by lawyers Michael Peroff and Stephen Coates, argued that X abandoned the Twitter brand by renaming its service. In response, X filed a countersuit to maintain ownership of Twitter-related trademarks. Operation Bluebird has been collecting sign-ups for a potential rival social network but is suspected to be more interested in acquiring the trademark itself.