X Social Media is suing X, a social media company::Elon Musk’s X is being sued by a Florida company called X Social Media for alleged unfair competition and trademark violations that it says have resulted in lost revenue.
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I really want X.org to get some massive compensation for Elon’s theft of their logo.
Took this in London the other day.
It’s too common a symbol for X.org to have much of a shot because they’re not competitors. This “X Social Media” might have a stronger claim if they’ve actually used and defended a trademark specifically in the social space.
Whatever happened to all the buzz about the internet finally giving porn sites their own top-level domain.
And give all the money to Wayland.
Except their logo wasn’t stolen.
X is using a standard Unicode symbol.
Is something like a unicode symbol even valid as a trademark?
Which one?
𝕏 (U+1D54F) and/or 𝕩 (U+1D569)
If you search blackboard bold or double-struck letters you can find more.
So basically musk is so cheap (and toxic) he can’t even convince any graphic designers to work for him.
Lol
𝕏 is a Unicode character known as “mathematical double-struck capital X.”
Its probably still too different for that, but I am not against them trying of course.
Apple has successfully trademarked everything that remotely looks like an apple with a bite taken out - there’s a good chance it’ll work
Downvote Musk spam.
The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the headlines every day. Don’t be a useful idiot.
Technically they are not exactly on the same field which could allow using similar trademarks. But on the other hand in this case X’s use of X could be reasonably argued to be very confusing for customers and therefore violating X’s trademark.
ex-X formerly Twitter.
Sorry who is suing who now?
X is suing X. X is a social media company, and so is X. I hope that clears things up!
Well then, I really hope X wins.
Frankly, I want X to lose big time.
Former Twitter is just called X, but the other company is X Social Media.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It was bound to happen eventually: a company has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Elon Musk’s X Corp. over its renaming of Twitter (via Reuters).
The company in question is X Social Media LLC, an ad agency from Florida that alleges X Corp. is guilty of violating Florida common law because of “unfair competition and trademark and service mark infringement,” as well as the state’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
X Social Media (hereafter referred to as XSM to make this article easier to write) writes in the complaint that it has used its registered trademark, “X SOCIALMEDIA,” continuously since 2016.
XSM claims it has “already suffered loss in revenue that correlates with X Corp.’s rebrand and use of the mark ‘X.’”
It’s unclear how strong X Social Media’s case will ultimately be.
Law professor Alexandra Roberts told The Verge earlier this year that the “crowded field” of “X” trademarks could make it hard for any individual X-branded service to enforce a claim against another — whether that’s Musk’s X or a company like X Social Media.
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Does this joke never end?
so what?
