Comment on X Social Media is suing X, a social media company

realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• vidarh@lemmy.stad.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Took this in London the other day.

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  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.

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• SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And give all the money to Wayland.

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  • Number358@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    X.org develops Wayland

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• HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Except their logo wasn’t stolen.

  X is using a standard Unicode symbol.

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  • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is something like a unicode symbol even valid as a trademark?

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    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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  • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Which one?

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    • oscar@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      𝕏 (U+1D54F) and/or 𝕩 (U+1D569)

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      • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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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    • Critical_Insight@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      𝕏 is a Unicode character known as “mathematical double-struck capital X.”

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• RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • hh93@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨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

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨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.

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      • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨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”.

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    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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!

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      • trk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That joke contained an apple with a bite taken out of it, you can expect to hear from Apple’s lawyers soon.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A worm with half an apple taken out of it.

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• blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  X.XXX

  Whatever happened to all the buzz about the internet finally giving porn sites their own top-level domain.

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