September 15, 2025
An advertising agency for attorneys, X Social Media, has settled a trademark dispute with X Corp. that arose from Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand, the parties told a Florida federal judge Monday.
July 21, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court will evaluate contributory liability in a $1 billion copyright case involving internet service providers, and the Federal Circuit will assess the latest attempted trademark registration testing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's comfort with profanity. Here are the copyright and trademark cases to watch for the rest of the year.
June 26, 2025
Legal marketing firm X Social Media LLC told a Florida federal judge that its claims that Elon Musk's decision to rebrand the social media platform he owns from Twitter to X poses a risk of consumer confusion should be left to a jury, while Musk's company accused the marketing firm of case delays worthy of sanctions.
June 05, 2025
Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand X Corp. urged a Florida federal judge Wednesday to reject claims that it infringed the trademark of an advertising agency for attorneys, arguing that each company offers different services for different audiences with no chance of consumer confusion.
May 23, 2025
In this round of emerging issues in copyright and trademark law, Law360 takes a closer look at comments submitted to the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies to create an Artificial Intelligence Action Plan as part of an executive order from President Donald Trump.
July 15, 2024
Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand X Corp. suffered a setback Monday when a Florida federal judge kept intact most of a trademark infringement complaint by X Social Media LLC, an advertising agency for attorneys, with only one claim dismissed from the suit.
January 10, 2024
X Social Media LLC has countered Elon Musk's X Corp.'s motion to dismiss its trademark infringement suit, telling a Florida federal court that Musk's dismissal bid offered "irrelevant" arguments to distract from the fact that X Social Media plausibly claimed infringement of the "X" mark.
December 05, 2023
Elon Musk's X Corp., the company formerly known as Twitter, has asked a Florida federal judge to dismiss a complaint from X Social Media LLC, calling the suit "a shakedown masquerading as trademark infringement and unfair competition claims."
October 02, 2023
The social media website formerly known as Twitter was hit Monday in Florida federal court with one of its first trademark lawsuits over Elon Musk's recent decision to rebrand the website as "X" — coming from a Florida legal marketing firm that also puts out "Mass Tort Insider."