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Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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TechBro8615 wrote: post #44
TX81Z wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

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Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by toomuchtodo »

sghiassy wrote: post #51
TX81Z wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I’m jealous of Elon for being able to be on so many drugs simultaneously. I can only do one drug, max, at a time.

I believe in you. You can do it. Dream big.

Legal Disclaimer: not actual advice.

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by nickstinemates »

TX81Z wrote: post #40
soligern wrote: post #23

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…

Wait - how does he simultaneously bid on a site with "no revenue" and then "kill 50% of it." If the revenue was meaningless then killing half of it shouldn't matter. If it wasn't meaningless then the "no revenue" comment makes no sense. Which is it?

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Post by arcticbull »

api wrote: post #54
TX81Z wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I’m starting to just feel sad because I’m suspecting serious cognitive decline or mental illness. At this point it’s just watching someone have a crisis.

Interesting things start to happen to you once you have too much money. This is a case study that will be written about in the, er, DSM, most likely.

Maybe this is a variant of the long-rumored affluenza?

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by netsharc »

superfrank wrote: post #45
Clamchop wrote: post #3

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?

Or, it seems, any tweet that talks about gaming. It'd be funny if gaming companies and publications had to be removed from Twitter because of this trademark issue. Or if a Microsoft game studio tweeted about a game and it'd be a basis for a Microsoft trademark lawsuit against Twitter:

A similar sort of trademark fight:

> In 1978, Apple Corps, the Beatles-founded holding company and owner of their record label, Apple Records, filed a lawsuit against Apple Computer for trademark infringement. The suit was settled in 1981 with an undisclosed amount being paid to Apple Corps. [...] As a condition of the settlement, Apple Computer agreed not to enter the music business, and Apple Corps agreed not to enter the computer business.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by RamenJunkie_ »

TechBro8615 wrote: post #44
TX81Z wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Probably but only because musk removed actual moderation tools and now spends 24x7 furiously refreshing the timeline to manually permaban anyone not sucking up to him.

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by CydeWeys »

kibwen wrote: post #19

According 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…

Lots of people/companies own a trademark on X. It's a very common TM. I mean it is a single letter after all!
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