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X Social Media is suing X, a social media company
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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.
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?
Probably not protectable, no. It has to be in use in commerce and distinctive. That said, with enough money you can buy enough lawyers to warp reality, so who knows.
Which one?
๐ (U+1D54F) and/or ๐ฉ (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
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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
I like how they make a deal with Apple Records in the 80s that allowed both companies to use similar logos so long as Apple Computers didn't sell music and Apple Records didn't sell computers.
Then when iTunes became Apple's #1 product in the 2000s Apple successfully defended itself in court claiming that digital downloads were just 1s and 0s, so Apple Computers never sold music.
Did it actually go to trial? The line I heard was that when developing the iPod/iTunes they simply had a budget item for "Settlement with Apple Records".
What is worse than an apple with a bite taken out and a worm in it?
An apple with a bite taken out and half a worm in it!
That joke contained an apple with a bite taken out of it, you can expect to hear from Apple's lawyers soon.
A worm with half an apple taken out of it.
X.XXX
Whatever happened to all the buzz about the internet finally giving porn sites their own top-level domain.