Twitter may be slapped with lawsuits as over 900 businesses have trademarked 'X.'
, which, with its white and light blue colored ‘X,’ is very different from the new Twitter logo. The logo has been trademarked for use in the software and social media industries.
Meta itself ran into intellectual property challenges when it changed its name from Facebook in 2021. Its lawsuits with investment firm Metacapital and virtual-reality company MetaX are still ongoing, reportedIt will be a tit-for-tat situation if Meta decides to sue the former bird company, as earlier this month Elon Musk’s lawyer sent an email to Mark Zuckerberg after Meta launched a Twitter
on July 6. Musk accused Zuckerberg of hiring former Twitter employees to get their hands on Twitter’s trade secrets and intellectual property.X trademark for its video game platform Xbox. Andres Guadamuz, a law and technology academic, tweeted: “Microsoft owns a trademark for X. So Musk has destroyed a loved and strong brand, for potential years of litigation, and potentially no brand."
And the icing on the cake: Microsoft owns a trademark for X. So Musk has destroyed a loved and strong brand, for potential years of litigation, and potentially no brand.
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