Everyone might still refer to X as Twitter, but for all legal purposes, that name is dead and gone. But if X owner Elon Musk doesn’t see the value in the name, a startup called Operation Bluebird apparently does. The company filed a petition this week with the US Patent and Trademark Office to cancel X’s trademarks on the words “Twitter” and “tweet,” arguing that Musk’s operation has abandoned them.

“Abandoned” is a legal term in this sense, as Operation Bluebird’s petition claims abandonment as the grounds for why the USPTO should cancel X’s holding of Twitter’s legacy branding. “The TWITTER and TWEET brands have been eradicated from X Corp.’s products, services, and marketing, effectively abandoning the storied brand, with no intention to resume use of the mark,” the petition states.

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