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Travis Nice@David Plus #Microsoft own the trademark for #X in the context of banking and finance. There goes the X payments platform.
Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name
Billionaire Elon Musk's decision to rebrand Twitter as X could be complicated legally: companies including Meta <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/META.O" target="_blank">(META.O)</a> and Microsoft <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/MSFT.O" target="_blank">(MSFT.O)</a> already have intellectual property rights to the same letter.
DJ Saunders@travis_nice @David Google called. They also want their "X" back... x.company, that is.
And using a Unicode character as your logo... good luck trying to trademark that.
Melon did not think this through at all (unsurprisingly), and the payment system won't happen even without the Microsoft lawsuit, since the company that threw away 17 years of brand equity (bye-bye, birdie) does not have any infrastructure for processing payments. It simply wasn't built for that.