Turns out Elon Musk is n’t as originative at coming up with troupe name calling as we antecedently think , as his obsession with the letter X is start him into some legal bother . A Florida ad agency for law firms is suing the billionaire ’s company over trademark misdemeanor .
“ As ‘ X ’ is a social media platform , consumer naturally conflate ‘ X SocialMedia ’ as an X Corp. ’s social media platform , ” the lawsuit reason . “ X Social Media has already suffered red in receipts that correlate with X Corp. ’s rebrand and utilization of the mark ‘ X. ’ It is extremely likely this inverse confusion will continue to X Social Media ’s financial detriment and to the hurt of the consumers who use and benefit from its services . ”
There are manifestly 900 U.S. trademark registrations on “ X”in a wide kind of different industries . Microsoft , for example , has a trademark on X for its Xbox video game console and related platforms , and has owned that trademark since 2003 . Twitter / X rival Meta also has a hallmark on X for a software and social media logo . While X Social Media LLC has just filed its lawsuit against X Corp for infringement , this legal limbo could answer as an example for other companies contain standardized trademark to follow .
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Elon Musk officially took over Twitter last October , and this retiring April , court filing revealed that Musk was transition the companionship name from Twitter Inc. to X Corp. The platform itself eventually became known as X after the URL twitter.com commence redirect to x.com this pastsummer . Twitter / X CEO Linda Yaccarinopostedsome word salad to the platform following the rebrand , claim that “ X is the future state of matter of unlimited interactivity ” and will be “ power by AI.”Yaccarino , however , has also been forced to clean up the messleft behind by Musk ’s bid to create a website for everything , with the CEO calling the rebrand a “ release from Twitter . ”
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