Venice Film Festival unveils A-list lineup with ‘Priscilla,’ ‘Ferrari,’ ‘Maestro’ amid strikes
Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein drama “Maestro,” Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla Presley movie, Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” David Fincher’s “The Killer” and Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” will be making their world debuts at the Venice International Film Festival this fall
2023-07-25 20:54
Marriott Vacations Worldwide Appoints Jason Marino as Chief Financial Officer
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2023-07-25 20:53
TurnOnGreen Expands Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure to 3 Best Western Affiliated Properties in Eastern Canada
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2023-07-25 20:48
Elon Musk’s ‘X’ already trademarked by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta for ‘social networking services’
Elon Musk may face legal difficulties after rebranding Twitter to X, trademark experts have warned, with tech rivals Meta and Microsoft both owning intellectual property rights for the letter. The tech billionaire renamed the social network on Monday, nine months after taking over the company in a $44 billion deal. The name change forms part of his plan to turn the platform into an “everything app”, which will offer services akin to China’s WeChat and India’s PayTM. X chief executive Linda Yaccarino said the company wanted to “transform the global town square” to integrate payments, banking and create a “global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities”. Before achieving this goal, however, IP lawyers claim Mr Musk’s firm may face challenges from its competitors. “There’s a 100 per cent chance that Twitter is going to get sued over this by somebody,” US trademark lawyer Josh Gerben told Reuters, noting that there are nearly 900 active US trademark registrations that already cover the letter X. These include Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, which owns a federal trademark for a blue-and-white letter ‘X’ relating to “social networking services in the fields of entertainment, gaming and application development”. Microsoft also has registered trademarks for the letter ‘X’ relating to its Xbox video game console. Neither company responded to a request for comment. Mr Musk first owned the X.com domain in 1999, when he founded a financial services company that later went on to become PayPal. He reacquired the domain in 2017 after making a deal with his former company, before tweeting in October 2022 that buying Twitter was “an accelerant to creating X, the everything app”. It is not clear whether Mr Musk has applied for a trademark for X, but if he succeeds he may still face difficulties in protecting the registered rights against other brands using the letter. “The very essence of trade mark registration is obtaining an exclusive right to the brand that is registered,” Matthew Harris, a trademark lawyer with Pinsent Masons, told The Independent. “It may be difficult to obtain for Elon Musk under the ‘X’ rebrand, not to mention the difficulty, should he obtain registered protection, in trying to enforce any registered rights in ‘X’ against other brands using a similar name.” Read More What is Elon Musk’s ‘everything app’ X? Twitter to X: Why Elon Musk rebranded the social networking platform Twitter rebrands to X as Elon Musk loses iconic bird logo What is Elon Musk’s ‘everything app’ X?
2023-07-25 20:48
Simple Mills is Recruiting its First Chief Cheese Officer in Honor of Its Cheesiest Launch to Date, Cheddar Pop Mmms™ Veggie Flour Baked Snack Crackers
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2023-07-25 20:27
Vital Biosciences Introduces Revolutionary Point-of-Care Lab Testing Platform to Transform Patient Care
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2023-07-25 20:27
Savers Value Village Wins Over Wall Street as Analysts See Growth Potential of Thrifting
Thrift shopping is hot and after a successful trading debut Wall Street analysts are telling investors to scoop
2023-07-25 20:23
Twitter's rebrand is the next stage in Elon Musk's vision for the company. But does anyone want it?
Elon Musk's move over the weekend to rebrand Twitter and replace its iconic bird logo with an X is just the latest step in his effort to make over the billionaire's longtime favorite platform in his image.
2023-07-25 20:21
Trigon Metals Update: Kombat Mine Progress
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2023-07-25 20:21
Rhinostics Launches the ELEstic™/ELEbot™ Platform, Bringing Proven Automated Swab Workflows to Broad Diagnostics Systems
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2023-07-25 20:20
Tempo's Suite of Jira Native Tools Enables Agile Mastery at Scale
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2023-07-25 20:20
loanDepot names Melanie Graper Chief Human Resources Officer
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2023-07-25 20:16