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X Social Media is suing X, a social media company(www.theverge.com)

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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.

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Kayn@dormi.zone
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Except their logo wasn’t stolen.

X is using a standard Unicode symbol.

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𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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Is something like a unicode symbol even valid as a trademark?

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ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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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
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Which one?

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Oscar@programming.dev
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𝕏 (U+1D54F) and/or 𝕩 (U+1D569)

If you search blackboard bold or double-struck letters you can find more.

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PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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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
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𝕏 is a Unicode character known as “mathematical double-struck capital X.”

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