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Comment by Clamchop | Hacker News Reader

It's scoped to video games and associated entertainment and services so it shouldn't apply to Twitter, if that's what this post is getting at.

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"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"

Musk's vision for X seems to be an everything app similar to WeChat. Wouldn't MS's trademark at least limit him from expanding X into gaming?

Or, it seems, any tweet that talks about gaming. It'd be funny if gaming companies and publications had to be removed from Twitter because of this trademark issue. Or if a Microsoft game studio tweeted about a game and it'd be a basis for a Microsoft trademark lawsuit against Twitter:

A similar sort of trademark fight:

> In 1978, Apple Corps, the Beatles-founded holding company and owner of their record label, Apple Records, filed a lawsuit against Apple Computer for trademark infringement. The suit was settled in 1981 with an undisclosed amount being paid to Apple Corps. [...] As a condition of the settlement, Apple Computer agreed not to enter the music business, and Apple Corps agreed not to enter the computer business.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

I recommend checking under "Goods and Services" on that page. Some of those seem _just_ vague enough that Twitter could run afoul of them.

The fact that it's vague also means it's easier to have it invalidated on the basis that it's too broad.

Vague but still within a narrow domain which is much harder to invalidate for being too broad.

The Internet seems huge to programmers, but it’s still a fairly narrow slice of economic activity. We aren’t talking about nursery schools, hospitals, fast food, or even the XGames etc just because they happen to have a website.

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