Twitpic to close down its operations following trademark issue with Twitter

Twitpic, an image sharing service which has helped users to bring photos on Social Media giant Twitter, announced on Thursday that it will terminate all its operations from 25th of September to avoid costly trademark issue with Twitter.

After deciding not to fight for trademark issue, Noah Everett, Founder of Twitpic announced the news on blog.

We originally filed for our trademark in 2009 and our first use in commerce dates back to February 2008 when we launched. We encountered several hurdles and difficulties in getting our trademark approved even though our first use in commerce predated other applications, but we worked through each challenge and in fact had just recently finished the last one. During the “published for opposition” phase of the trademark is when Twitter reached out to our counsel and implied we could be denied access to their API if we did not give up our mark.

He also added

Unfortunately we do not have the resources to fend off a large company like Twitter to maintain our mark which we believe whole heartedly is rightfully ours. Therefore, we have decided to shut down Twitpic.

Twitpic also has announced to publish one feature on the site so that people can export their all pictures before 25th of September.

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