X owns the trademark for "X" simply by using it, whether it was registered with a trademark office or not. It certainly doesn't hurt that Elon's company registered X.com in 1993, then he purchased it from Paypal in 2017 and has been using it in various capacities since then.
Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”
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#32Didn't Alphabet already own the entire alphabet?
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#33Twitter no doubt has a huge legal department that ran a trademark search and decided their use was permissible.
not anymore!
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#34Do you need to actively use and defend a trademark to maintain it? And does using and defending "X-box" don't the same as "X"?
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#35Twitter no doubt has a huge legal department that ran a trademark search and decided their use was permissible.
Had.
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#36Twitter no doubt has a huge legal department that ran a trademark search and decided their use was permissible.
They don't have departments anymore and I don't think they can afford legal advice. It's probably just Elon using ChatGPT.
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#37Twitter no doubt has a huge legal department that ran a trademark search and decided their use was permissible.
not sure if sarcastic or not. with musk at the helm and with the how he has been firing large swaths of people and has a habit of impulsively acting i wouldn't count on it.
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#38X owns the trademark for "X" simply by using it, whether it was registered with a trademark office or not. It certainly doesn't hurt that Elon's company registered X.com in 1993, then he purchased it from Paypal in 2017 and has been using it in various capacities since then.
Hasn't it been a blank page with a x for a long ass time?
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#39> Standard Character Claim: No
> Mark Drawing Type: 1 - TYPESET WORD(S) /LETTER(S) /NUMBER(S)
They do not own the trademark for the letter "X" (that would make a "Standard Character Claim") but the very specific typeset, as featured on the right side of the linked page.
Here [1] it patents a specific illustration format of X. Again no standard character claim.
So no issue for former twitter, as you can easily see the typeset is very different.
I do not know if there is any precedent of a standard character claim for a single letter, but that would really sound ridiculous to me tbh.
[1] https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87980831&caseType=SERIAL_...
Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”
#40According to this one: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87980831&caseType=SERIAL_... , it seems to be Meta that owns the trademark for X, for about a zillion application domains; expand the "Goods and Services" expando and see for yourself. EDIT: The last one in the list is in regard to this domain: > Online social networking services; online social networking services, namely, facilitating social introductions or…
Aren’t Musk and the Zuck feuding right now? This is a hilarious setup.
Elon had this planned out from the start, 50 steps ahead.
Make an outrageously high bid on a site with no consistent profit, try desperately to get out of the deal, and fail (as a misdirection of course), alienate power users, kill 50% of revenue, totally nuke site reliability, lose all the top talent, and of course, rack up a pile of lawsuits a mile deep.
And only THEN, blow everybody’s mind by jettisoning a brand so valuable it is a globally recognized verb, rebranding using your competitors IP, and take over 50% of global banking.*
(* this is actually what he said.)