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Musk is gonna get sued outta the world (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Philo@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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https://ground.news/article/meta-trademark-of-x-logo-may-pose-legal-issues-for-twitter-musk-amid-company-rebranding_9be380

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[–] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Insights by Ground AI

Do yourself a favor and block this trash AI news aggregator, they provide no value.

[–] Philo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Can you give me an example?

[–] brimnac@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no…

Anyway.

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

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

[–] tcgoetz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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.”

[–] 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