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Meta, Microsoft already own 'X' trademarks as Twitter changes to 'X'

Get ready for trademark trolls to start coming out of the woodworks. That's the expectation now that Elon Musk has rebranded Twitter as simply "X." It turns out hundreds of other companies already own trademarks and specific versions of that letter. Microsoft uses it for Xbox and Meta owns X for software and social media.
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