X Social Media is suing X, a social media company
by Wes Davis from The Verge - All Posts on (#6F8D9)
Illustration: The Verge It was bound to happen eventually: a company has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Elon Musk's X Corp. over its renaming of Twitter (via Reuters). The company in question is X Social Media LLC, an ad agency from Florida that alleges X Corp. is guilty of violating Florida common law because of unfair competition and trademark and service mark infringement," as well as the state's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
X Social Media (hereafter referred to as XSM to make this article easier to write) writes in the complaint that it has used its registered trademark, X SOCIALMEDIA," continuously since 2016. XSM claims it has already suffered loss in revenue that correlates with X Corp.'s rebrand and use of the mark X.'"
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