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Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by nashashmi on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @01:53AM (#36858472)
Are you sure it is the letter and not the graphic that is trademarked?
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Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha... by zimpenfish on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @03:02AM (#36858923)
It does say "Standard Character Claim: No" which (as best I can tell from [1]) means it is the particular form of that letter[2], not the letter itself, which is trademarked.

[1] https://smallbusiness.chron.com/standard-character-claim-mea...

[2] Although it is a pretty generic "1".

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