Yes, Microsoft and Meta hold 'X' trademarks


July 26, 2023

CBS

People continue to chirp tonight about the impending end of Twitter.

Elon Musk is changing the app’s name and logo to X. But some users claim the rebrand may not last long because a pair of tech giants beat it to the punch.

Do Microsoft and Meta own trademarks for the letter X? Yes, both Microsoft and Meta hold trademarks for the letter X...

Robert Brauneis, a law professor at George Washington University who specializes in intellectual property, trademark, and copyright law, said trademarks are limited to the company’s specific product or service.

“So, if I decided to call my soup X, that would not prevent a book publisher from deciding to call their book publishing company X," he explained, "because consumers don’t think that a soup company has just gone into the book publishing business.”

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