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A comment on Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Thanks to Microsoft.

Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by dmix on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:21PM (#36857085)
If it is just a trademark issue and not logo design, could Twitter just make it x.com? Elon made x.com in 1999. He could pitch it as a revival rather than simple X the company.
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Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by zadler on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:32PM (#36857160)
X.com seems a better brand than X anyway…
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Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by nullindividual on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:37PM (#36857177)
Not to be confused with XCOM.
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Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by jlawer on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @12:56AM (#36858065)
Confirmed, the successor to Starship will be SkyRanger, later to be replaced by the Avenger once they master Elerium-115
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Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by code_duck on Monday July 24, 2023 @11:12PM (#36857405)
If he had the trademark then, he wouldn't have it 20 years later without having used and defended it in the intervening time.
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Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by dmix on Monday July 24, 2023 @11:48PM (#36857634)
I don't know how that works though. What if it just dies on the grapevine and no one uses it for 2 decades? AFAIK It got merged into Paypal then was mostly just killed off as a functional trademark
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Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by coffeebeqn on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @12:28AM (#36857900)
Plot twist: PayPal will sue them now for using their IP from 20 years ago
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Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by code_duck on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @01:06AM (#36858150)
Meta, Microsoft Apple and Google have all used X for one thing or another. Most recently an X trademark in the context of social media was bought by Meta from Microsoft when they acquired Mixer, which became Facebook Gaming.
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