Thursday, June 18, 2026

Elon Musk Changes Twitter Name to X, But Microsoft Owns An X Trademark for All Computer Related Items That Could Be a Problem

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This should be interesting.

Turns out Microsoft owns the trademark for “X” for everything related to computers, etc. including all the items stated below.

X is the name Elon Musk has changed Twitter to. Did no one tell him?

Microsoft’s X is stylized in a different way than Musk’s. But it may not be sufficiently different. Musk’s X is white on black. which may get him off the hook since Microsoft’s X is described as ” consists of a stylized letter “X”. The left side of the “X” is white and the right side of the “X” is blue. The shaded square carrier represents background only and is not a part of the mark.”

Musk traded in his beautiful blue bird for this nonsense. Microsoft could immediately start its own Twitter like platform and use this logo.

Below are all the things the X trademark covers:

“Computer software for broadcasting, transmitting, receiving, accessing, viewing, uploading, downloading, sharing, integrating, encoding, decoding, displaying, formatting, organizing, storing, caching, transferring and streaming of data, text, games, game content, digital media, images, music, audio, video, movies and animations; application programming interface (API) software for broadcasting, transmitting, receiving, accessing, viewing, uploading, downloading, sharing, integrating, encoding, decoding, displaying, formatting, organizing, storing, caching, transferring and streaming of data, text, games, game content, digital media, images, music, audio, video, movies and animations; computer software for sending, receiving and organizing electronic mail, messaging, enabling internet chat and social networking; computer software for purchasing and subscribing to digital media content; computer software development tools; computer software for developing and publishing applications for interactive streaming; software development kits (SDK’s) for developing software for broadcasting, transmitting, receiving, accessing, viewing, uploading, downloading, sharing, integrating, encoding, decoding, displaying, formatting, organizing, storing, caching, transferring and streaming of data, text, games, game content, digital media, images, music, audio, video, movies and animations; computer software that enables users to designate specific content for future viewing; computer software for management and storage of digital media; computer software for accessing, browsing and searching online databases; software for filtering internet searches; audio recordings featuring music; video recordings featuring music, video games, movies and animations; computer software that allows gamers to live broadcast their games from a gaming console, or to watch games being played by others”

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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