Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name

RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Technology@beehaw.org – 185 points –
Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name
reuters.com
28

You are viewing a single comment

Apple stopped giving their new products the"i" prefix because they weren't able to trademark it because "you can't trademark a letter."

I doubt that they'll allow Elon Musk to trademark the letter "x"

You can’t trademark a letter and you can’t copyright a font - I believe the courts have ruled so due to first amendment concerns.

I think you can, however, trademark a logo that consists of a letter. I’m thinking specifically of the McDonald’s M logo. I might be wrong, but I have seen Coming to America multiple times.

The problem here will be that Elon's new X logo is really just an existing Unicode character: 𝕏. It's appeared in maths papers for decades. This isn't like the golden arches - there's nothing novel there to trademark.