Parallel metaverses: Zuckerberg’s Meta might meet a trademark challenge from META PCs
by Samira Sadeque from Technology | The Guardian on (#5RDCW)
A computer company for gamers says it filed to trademark the name a year ago
Meta PCs, an Arizona-based company that sells computers, laptops and software for gamers was an unremarkable retail outfit a week ago. Then on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his company would be changing its name to Meta and it found itself in an IP war with tech's biggest behemoth.
Lucky for Meta PCs, it's already a few months ahead of Facebook in having the name trademarked. According to a document shared by TMZ, the company filed for its trademark in August, a little over a year after it was started.
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