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When did it become okay to trademark letters or single words of our language? So tired of capitalism.
by throwaway914 3y ago
When did it become okay to trademark letters or single words of our language? So tired of capitalism.
- rafaelrc 3y agoWhen people asked for the government to regulate intellectual property. But I guess crying about capitalism is easier
- throwaway914 3y agoWe care more about protecting capital than people.
- TheSmiddy 3y agoFord owns several single letter trademarks for the purpose of selling cars. This doesn't prevent people from using the letters for other purposes.
- IAmYourDensity 3y agoIncluding the trademark for "Model E", which is why we have the Tesla "Model 3" and S3XY.
- j16sdiz 3y agoThey did not trademark the letter. They trademark the styled blue/white >< logo.
- CobrastanJorji 3y agoSure, but I'll bet you that in a year or two a number of other websites with a differently styled X logo are going to get letters threatening them for having "confusingly similar" stylized X logos. Heck, "the same sequence of characters in a differently stylized font" is an example of something that fails the likelihood of confusion test on the USPTO website: https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search/likelihood-confusion https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search/likelihood-confusion But then we get into the "relatedness of goods and services" test. What is X trademarking here? Well, according to the application, it covers everything in the mother of all run on sentences, including "Computer software for...displaying...video." So, then, is this logo likely to be confused with any other website that displays videos and has an X for a logo? Because there are a whole bunch of (mostly porn) websites that would seem to be covered. But for what it's worth, trademark seems to be a very nuanced and fact-specific area of law, and I'm a layman looking at USPTO websites, so I'm entirely out of my element here and somebody can hopefully correct me.
- johngladtj 3y agoTrademarks are statism, not capitalism
- dragonwriter 3y agoIts not a letter, its a specific logo where both the shape and color pattern are specific. OTOH, you can trademark a color, so...