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Twitpic Killed By Weight Of Trademark Dispute

A costly trademark dispute with Twitter is killing photo-sharing service Twitpic. “According to founder Noah Everett, the social network threatened to revoke Twitpic's API access if it didn't drop a trademark application,” PC Magazine reports. In a blog post, Everett writes: “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.”
 

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