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.”

[–] brimnac@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no…

Anyway.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

If anyone deserves to get sued out of this world, it is precisely that company and individual.

[–] sparkl_motion@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 2 points 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