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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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Post by CydeWeys »

nba456_ wrote: post #120
CydeWeys wrote: post #71

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Meta and Microsoft may have registered those trademarks but I haven't seen them using them, so they might struggle to actually defend them in court against someone who is very clearly actually using "X". Honestly Apple probably has the best shot, as they do use "X" prominently. Mac OS X, iPhone X, etc.

MS has definitely been using it for Xbox and XCloud.

But those aren't "X", they're "Xbox" and "XCloud". It has to just be the "X". And yes there's an Xbox logo that's just an X, but it's stylized quite differently than Elon's dumb X, and it's a different thing (gaming).

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by kyriakos »

CydeWeys wrote: post #71
electricmonk wrote: post #52

IANYL. Microsoft owns a trademark registration for X [standard character] for certain goods and services (see: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=2693757&caseSearchType=US... ). Meta owns a trademark registration for X (Stylized), which Microsoft apparently assigned to Meta (see https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87980831&caseType=SERIAL_... ). Musk as been using X in various capacities since the 90s, and depending o…

Meta and Microsoft may have registered those trademarks but I haven't seen them using them, so they might struggle to actually defend them in court against someone who is very clearly actually using "X". Honestly Apple probably has the best shot, as they do use "X" prominently. Mac OS X, iPhone X, etc.

Isn't xbox logo an x?

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by fnordpiglet »

s1artibartfast wrote: post #87
AceJohnny2 wrote: post #53

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Because I need to vent... I dreamt this morning that I was berating ElMo for being off his meds and making billion-dollar decisions while in manic phase. For months. I'm actually pretty annoyed that I would even dream about it. I detest the expression, but this is a perfect example of "living rent-free in someone's head". I need to get off the internet.

It's fascinating how people can't just ignore Elon, especially the people that don't even use/like Twitter. Life is a lot easier if you just think "I don't care about" this and scroll past. Yet here we are, as I understanding the trademark to X will somehow matter in our personal lives or make us happy

That’s like saying “why does everyone rubber neck a horrific car accident? If they just ignored it and drive by traffic would be much better.” Everyone knows this. But we can’t help but be intrigued by the carnage.

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by TX81Z »

evandale wrote: post #95
s1artibartfast wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's fascinating how people can't just ignore Elon, especially the people that don't even use/like Twitter. Life is a lot easier if you just think "I don't care about" this and scroll past. Yet here we are, as I understanding the trademark to X will somehow matter in our personal lives or make us happy

There is something about successful men who get away with giving the finger to the woke crowd that _really_ tick people off.

It’s almost as though none of this was about business and totally about being an imagined champion for a mob of internet losers fighting a battle nobody with an ounce of sense, reason, or self respect buys into?

Big brain stuff. Big brain.

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by gorlilla »

electricmonk wrote: post #52

IANYL. Microsoft owns a trademark registration for X [standard character] for certain goods and services (see: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=2693757&caseSearchType=US... ). Meta owns a trademark registration for X (Stylized), which Microsoft apparently assigned to Meta (see https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87980831&caseType=SERIAL_... ). Musk as been using X in various capacities since the 90s, and depending o…

The "Moron in a hurry test." is stikl one of my favorites.

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by ddingus »

s1artibartfast wrote: post #87
AceJohnny2 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because I need to vent... I dreamt this morning that I was berating ElMo for being off his meds and making billion-dollar decisions while in manic phase. For months. I'm actually pretty annoyed that I would even dream about it. I detest the expression, but this is a perfect example of "living rent-free in someone's head". I need to get off the internet.

It's fascinating how people can't just ignore Elon, especially the people that don't even use/like Twitter. Life is a lot easier if you just think "I don't care about" this and scroll past. Yet here we are, as I understanding the trademark to X will somehow matter in our personal lives or make us happy

I glance at news like this, chuckle a little at comments (and that is a positive), then go on without Twitter, now X.

I am happier.

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by [deleted] »

evandale wrote: post #95
s1artibartfast wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's fascinating how people can't just ignore Elon, especially the people that don't even use/like Twitter. Life is a lot easier if you just think "I don't care about" this and scroll past. Yet here we are, as I understanding the trademark to X will somehow matter in our personal lives or make us happy

There is something about successful men who get away with giving the finger to the woke crowd that _really_ tick people off.

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Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by machdiamonds »

sheeshkebab wrote: post #46
TX81Z wrote: post #40

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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

You are in good company: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...

Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by [deleted] »

toss1 wrote: post #118
RF_Savage wrote: post #108

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Can't wait to see the promised payment part of "x". It's gona have crypto and KYC, doesn't it? Conveniently the advertizers will likely like the additional info. As will regimes like the saudis.

Anyone who trusts Elmo with any of their money is a damn fool (to phrase it very mildly) . . . especially after seeing the last 8 months of baldfaced stupidity

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Re: Microsoft Owns the Trademark for “X”

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Post by machdiamonds »

jallen_dot_dev wrote: post #79
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 know you're being sarcastic, but it's shocking how many people think he's actually a genius and all his missteps are really galaxy-brain maneuvers we just don't understand yet. Like, there are millions of them.

I think I'm going to trust Karpathy on this one over random HN commenters, but that's just me:

"Elon also understands deep neural nets a lot more than I think people imagine. He starts with good intuitions and mental models, but also actively asks for technical deep dives, and has very good retention. E.g. I recall teaching him about our use of focal loss in contrast to binary cross-entropy for the object detection neural net (I said it had given us a 5% bump and he asked to know more) and he understood how it works about as quickly as you'd expect a PhD student to. The fact that he can do this across many technical disciplines is impressive and borderline superhuman. I don't think people understand or would believe how low-level and technical typical meetings with him are. Just saying because I get triggered reading way off innacurate takes on this topic (original comment)."

-https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33703617

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