It's a kinda meh logo. They could do better. Heck, I could do better.
Trademark “X” for social media owned by Meta
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#12I like the new "Xitter" styling, because in Mandarin the phoneme "xi" is pronounced like "shi".
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#13When did it become okay to trademark letters or single words of our language? So tired of capitalism.
Ford owns several single letter trademarks for the purpose of selling cars. This doesn't prevent people from using the letters for other purposes.
Including the trademark for "Model E", which is why we have the Tesla "Model 3" and S3XY.
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#14When did it become okay to trademark letters or single words of our language? So tired of capitalism.
They did not trademark the letter. They trademark the styled blue/white >< logo.
Sure, but I'll bet you that in a year or two a number of other websites with a differently styled X logo are going to get letters threatening them for having "confusingly similar" stylized X logos. Heck, "the same sequence of characters in a differently stylized font" is an example of something that fails the likelihood of confusion test on the USPTO website: https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search/likelihood-confusion
But then we get into the "relatedness of goods and services" test. What is X trademarking here? Well, according to the application, it covers everything in the mother of all run on sentences, including "Computer software for...displaying...video."
So, then, is this logo likely to be confused with any other website that displays videos and has an X for a logo? Because there are a whole bunch of (mostly porn) websites that would seem to be covered.
But for what it's worth, trademark seems to be a very nuanced and fact-specific area of law, and I'm a layman looking at USPTO websites, so I'm entirely out of my element here and somebody can hopefully correct me.
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#15The devil is in the detail. The linked mark 'consists of a stylized letter "X". The left side of the "X" is white and the right side of the "X" is blue. The shaded square carrier represents background only and is not a part of the mark.'
No mortal man would have been allowed to register a trade mark this similar. I tried.
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#17Says Microsoft, not Meta. Not a standard character claim either, so it only applies to the specific logo, not the letter X.
Maybe you're looking at the wrong page. It clearly says the owner is "Meta Platforms".
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#18I think this whole thing is getting out of hand, why and who would allow a company to own an everyday word or letter!? Like apple, X, etc., next 10years from now people won’t be able to communicate without being sued.
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#19I like the new "Xitter" styling, because in Mandarin the phoneme "xi" is pronounced like "shi".
you ruined it by explaining.. learn the george costanza "just walk away"
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#20When did it become okay to trademark letters or single words of our language? So tired of capitalism.
Trademarks are statism, not capitalism