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?
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#42X 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.
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#43Doesn't this just mean they own the rights to their use as a logo? Eg the stylized X on their products? I don't think this blocks anybody from using X in their products as long as the logos are clearly different.
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#44Earlier 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…
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#45It'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.
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#46Earlier 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…
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#47Earlier 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…
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#49X 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.
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#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…
The two are equivalent.