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Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago::undefined

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean ... could they just use Twitter since that's not in use any more?

[–] smackjack@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Elon still owns the Twitter trademark, and can sue if anyone tries to use it.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How about Xwitter?

[–] SeabassDan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't Zuck the trademark to X, or was that just a joke going around?

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Meta, Microsoft and literally dozens more, quite a few in fields that can already be argued overlap with Twitter and even more are going to keep popping up as Musk adds features to his "everything app". His only defence is probably going to be arguing nobody should be able to own a single letter trademark which would be hilarious. And absolutely disasterous to him.