I think that's a requirement

You can't trademark a letter. Trademarks are extremely narrow and are only meant to apply in circumstances where one organization's symbol could be confused for another. In general I am very anti-intellectual-property, but trademarks are okay in my book. They are basically for consumer protection.

It is context sensitive

@pruwybn @storksforlegs In the future, everytime you use the letter X, even to text, you will be charged a fee of x amount of cents based on your income.

Eh. If I start my X Laundromat business, Microsoft won't come after me.

the amount of times I've read an internet article about this topic only to be met with a shockingly trivial mistake present front and center is staggering. the differences between patent, trademark, wordmark, etc. are all easily googleable and yet pretty much every article I've read on this has been using them interchangeably.

incoming rhetorical question: are these editors orangutans? (before anybody answers, i know editors & authors want to be the first one out the door so they get the most clicks and all that, but it's really not hard to make sure you're at least using the correct word. It seriously took me 20 seconds to find an answer on the difference between patent and trademark)

from trademark (note registered in 2003)

for: providing on-line chat rooms for transmission of messages among computer users concerning video and computer games; providing on-line electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users concerning video and computer games, in class 38

for: entertainment services, namely, providing interactive multiplayer game services for games played over computer networks and global communications networks; providing computer games and video games downloadable over computer global communications networks; providing information on the video game and computer game industries via the internet; and providing information on computer games, video games, video game consoles and accessories therefor via the internet, in class 41

in short: basically what they did in the ensuing years with Xbox and Games for Windows - Live

Xbox Series X, Surface Pro X,

Maybe this will finally kill Xorg

Aw man, I was trying to angrily shout racist hate speech into the void, but instead I ended up uninstalling Windows completely...

This confusion is exactly why Elon needs to protect his new trademark!

To which Cisco replied "okay" and forced Apple to agree to an unknown but likely ludicrous licensing fee.

Twitter got Apple money right now? Because even Elons billions aint shit compared to Microsofts literal trillions.

Actually iOS, not iPhone. I think if it were iPhone itself, an actually marketed product from either Apple or Cisco, it would have ended a bit differently. But in both cases, it was just iOS, the operating system of the marketed products.

In both cases, iOS was a selling point of the product, but not the product itself.

He killed the canary. There’s no better iconography for how toxic Twitter has become.

He does it about as well as I'd expect a muskrat to do it, to be fair

That’s… not how that works.
The brand isn’t "x.com" either, it’s "X". They don’t even use x.com as a domain.
Even if it was x.com, a video game being called Xcom wouldn’t be close enough to the website x.com to be able to be confused. It would be different if they both were websites.

Clearly the original was Mythos Games when they produced XCOM. Musk just added a fucking dot and thought that made it "original".