• tcgoetz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    TLDR: “Billionaire Elon Musk’s decision to rebrand Twitter as X could face legal challenges due to existing trademark rights held by companies like Meta and Microsoft for the letter X.”

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    1 year ago

    Having worked closely with MSFT legal in the past, I reached out to a few folks who are still there.

    They’re salivating at the thought of throwing down with this moron.

    • grahamsz@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      True, though there’s also the general absurdity that you can trademark a single letter. Surely meta have the best case as their trademark is actually for social media use, but even still it doesn’t look that similar