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> Standard Character Claim: No

> Mark Drawing Type: 1 - TYPESET WORD(S) /LETTER(S) /NUMBER(S)

They do not own the trademark for the letter "X" (that would make a "Standard Character Claim") but the very specific typeset, as featured on the right side of the linked page.

Here [1] it patents a specific illustration format of X. Again no standard character claim.

So no issue for former twitter, as you can easily see the typeset is very different.

I do not know if there is any precedent of a standard character claim for a single letter, but that would really sound ridiculous to me tbh.

[1] https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87980831&caseType=SERIAL_...

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https://trademarkgarden.com/2018/03/09/amazon-and-you/

The two are equivalent.

No, they aren't, and your source doesn't say they are. This is your source's description of the type of trademark that Meta has on X (AN ILLUSTRATION DRAWING WITH WORD(S) /LETTER(S)/ NUMBER(S) INSTYLIZED FORM):

> This Type is similar to “STANDARD CHARACTER MARK” in that it can only include words or phrases, and not images, however it does include a claim as to the particular stylization (font) and may, but do not have to, claim color. For example, the trademark “NETFLIX” written in stylized red font.

Edit: The source below is a bit more clear on the differences.

https://www.mavenip.com/blog/standard-character-mark-or-logo...

At least Meta made a unique mark. "𝕏" is a mathematical symbol, known as a doublestruck, or blackboard bold, letter X.

You can't get trademark on a mathematical symbol, generally.

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_bold

Such a letter 𝕏 is sometimes used to represent arbitrary or generic metric space:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_space

There is already another Hacker News thread that is dealing with this specific symbol:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36846076

Not talking about Meta's X, talking about Microsoft's X

It seems that indeed the "1 typed drawing" code is some sort of older version of the "4 standard character mark" code, it was a bit confusing [1]. Still I am unconvinced that this is enforceable in scale apart from protecting them from somebody else basically imitating their x-box services with a fake website or app. It seems that they have a very narrow scope of what it is about (chats/messages etc around gaming).

[1] https://www.docdroid.net/file/download/Ix0YicK/trademarks-ru...

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