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Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

#41

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.

Hasn't it been a blank page with a x for a long ass time?

Transmitting an 'x' online, seems like he's in the data transmission business. It has also been used as a redirect to The Boring Company website to sell hats.

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

#42

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.

They owned the trademark for X scoped to banking and financial services. Meta owns the trademark scoped to social media.

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 s…

Is Twitter usage (measured in daily active user hours per day) lower now than it was before the acquisition?

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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It's scoped to video games and associated entertainment and services so it shouldn't apply to Twitter, if that's what this post is getting at.

Musk's vision for X seems to be an everything app similar to WeChat. Wouldn't MS's trademark at least limit him from expanding X into gaming?

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

#46
post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 s…

Elon is a genius

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

#47
post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 s…

The masterplan unfolding.

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

#49

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.

They owned the trademark for X scoped to banking and financial services. Meta owns the trademark scoped to social media.

Trademark is established by use. Registration can offer an extra level of protection, but is not necessary to own a trademark. Elon has been using his X.com since he bought it back from PayPal in 2017, which interestingly is around the time some of these other 'X' registrations took place.

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

#50

> 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…

https://trademarkgarden.com/2018/03/09/amazon-and-you/

The two are equivalent.

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