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Re: Trademark “X” for social media owned by Meta

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Post by TheNewsIsHere » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 6:21 PM UTC

YPPH wrote: post #5

The 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.'

I’m not wading into issues of trademark disputes but I think your description really captures something here.

That mark absolutely doesn’t say “X” to me. If I saw that with absolutely no context, I would think it’s another generic brand logo with nothing unique or memorable about it except how like every other logo it looks.

Re: Trademark “X” for social media owned by Meta

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Post by throwaway914 » Tue, Jul 25, 2023, 9:02 PM UTC

rafaelrc wrote: post #6

throwaway914 wrote: post #4

When did it become okay to trademark letters or single words of our language? So tired of capitalism.

When people asked for the government to regulate intellectual property. But I guess crying about capitalism is easier

We care more about protecting capital than people.

Re: Trademark “X” for social media owned by Meta

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Post by YPPH » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 10:13 AM UTC

TheNewsIsHere wrote: post #21

YPPH wrote: post #5

The 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.'

I’m not wading into issues of trademark disputes but I think your description really captures something here. That mark absolutely doesn’t say “X” to me. If I saw that with absolutely no context, I would think it’s another generic brand logo with nothing unique or memorable about it except how like every other logo it looks.

Just to be clear, that's not my description. It's filed description on the trade mark.

Re: Trademark “X” for social media owned by Meta

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Post by notsavvy » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 11:08 PM UTC

queuebert wrote: post #12

I like the new "Xitter" styling, because in Mandarin the phoneme "xi" is pronounced like "shi".

that's probably his plan. it's a 44bn shitpost.

Re: Trademark “X” for social media owned by Meta

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Post by dragonwriter » Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 11:13 PM UTC

throwaway914 wrote: post #4

When did it become okay to trademark letters or single words of our language? So tired of capitalism.

Its not a letter, its a specific logo where both the shape and color pattern are specific.

OTOH, you can trademark a color, so...