Twitter X: who owns the new logo? Meta seems to have the rights

Elon Musk surprised to announce the change of Twitter and that it be carried out so quickly, since the popular social network no longer has its classic blue bird logo. Now it’s down to a simple X, but it could have some issues.

According to a report by Business Insider, it appears Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta had already registered a logo with the letter X, related to “online social networking services” and “social networking services in the fields of entertainment, gaming, and application development.”

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Unlike Elon Musk’s proposal, the Meta logo looks like two arrows with rounded ends pointing inward, one white and one blue. Instead, the new Twitter logo has one of the parts of the letter highlighted and is represented in black and white.

But not only that. Apparently the letter X that Twitter has assumed is a generic character from Unicode, a character encoding standard, which is called “double math uppercase X”.

On the same social network, it was reported that the symbol has been used in mathematical textbooks since the 1970s and serves to denote a space or abstract geometric object. That way, Twitter couldn’t appropriate the logo.

And it is that in the United States a logo must be unique and distinctive in some way to be a registered trademark in the Patent and Trademark Office. For this reason, the path of the new adventure of Twitter with its logo has just begun, amid various criticisms and ridicule.

Source: Elcomercio

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