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.

    • V H
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      961 year ago

      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.

    • Kayn
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      161 year ago

      Except their logo wasn’t stolen.

      X is using a standard Unicode symbol.

    • RBG
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      1 year ago

      Its probably still too different for that, but I am not against them trying of course.

      • hh93
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        161 year ago

        Apple has successfully trademarked everything that remotely looks like an apple with a bite taken out - there’s a good chance it’ll work

        • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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          161 year ago

          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.

          • @davidgro@lemmy.world
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            21 year ago

            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”.