A company called Meta is suing Meta for naming itself Meta

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A tale of two Metas

for a number of art installations at the Panorama Festival in 2016. In order to make this post comprehensible, we’re going to refer to the billion-dollar social media company as Facebook and the smaller augmented-reality company as Meta.is; this is not an endorsement of either side’s legal claims.)

Much of the case hinges on Facebook’s many privacy scandals, which Meta.is argues has made it impossible to share the name. “Meta can no longer provide goods and services under the META mark,” the complaint argues, “because consumers are likely to mistakenly believe that Meta’s goods and services emanate from Facebook and that Meta is associated with the toxicity that is inextricably linked with Facebook.

Meta.is holds a valid trademark for the name but may still be facing an uphill battle in court, given the broad range of trademark applications Facebook has made since the name change became official — including separate marks for messaging, social networks, and financial services. There are also a number of trademarks claiming the Meta name for non-tech products, including a hard seltzer and manufacturer of prosthetic limbs.

 

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I saw something funny about this. If Facebook loses then we will see things like 'Microsoft' Cookies and 'Dove' Keyboards. It means that we can use company name for products not related to the company itself

Just listening and reading more about this news

And “rightly so”

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That statement is so meta

Now that headline is meta.

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This news is gonna be 'meta' 😅😆

Guess you could call this a metaversus

Ah yes meta META

This is so Meta…

That’s meta

Lmaoo huh

And they should be. They pollute the word and it is a hige tax burden to have a corrupt company like Facebook thinks it can take such a general name and not bother about hurting anyone.

Wtf is meta

Good good

Oh poop… a paradox!

I think for simplicity we should just carry on calling them facebook.

That's so Meta

This will end with a monetary agreement between both parts, I’m sure

This is a meta course case for the meta Age

Love it 😃

yo dawg

Check meta?

That’s meta

We had META in Australia, too. Manufacturing excellence.

PhillyD

Such a metaish headline

Zuck think he's Bancroft

Meta for meta lol

thats meta prosection, in a nutshell...

So meta

Haha

See you in virtual court!

That's meta...

Diabolical

Facebook(Meta) is too big that it can take suing from multiple companies and still doing what they want to do. Their lawyers make things favourable to the company that's how these big companies work.

Meta issues everywhere 🙂

Now that is stupid,,, I'm going to sue everyone who has got my name... who said it was mine? or theirs? it is like buying food, it can look like another brand are they going to sue them for that

that’s so meta

That’s pretty meta

Nice 9 months lag.

How meta

😂

that’s totally Meta

life was easy when meta was faceboook!!

Ok just stop now. This is stupid.

I swear a company like Facebook do you think they would do the research 😂😂😂

zemacplayer

That's a Meta-ception

The metaverse collapsing on itself

Well that's all a bit meta.

I hope METAbeyond wins their lawsuit. I am sick of Mark Zuckerberg.

SRuhle

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That’s so meta

Meta+ problem solved

Wow. Things are getting… … Nvm, can’t remember the word.

Good

That’s METa

I call that Metaverse

I've always wondered, 'how did they manage to get the name 'META'.. did nobody think about that before and they got away with it'?! I guess this explains it.. xD therealmeta OrdinaryGamers please make a video about this XD

That’s so…meta.

How Meta of it.

Its almost as meta as releasing an inaccurate build video

How Meta

😂😂 lol

wait, what?

W Meta

Nice.

Headline Inception

Very meta

That’s so meta

wtf did you even just say

The headline is a 10, but it involves Facebook.

Looks like now it says DeleteFacebook for good

Those lawyers better come from the metaverse also tho 😅

And then there’s the logo ♾ …

good morning VarunMayya 🌞

😂

Meta

WELCUM TO THE METAVERSE

This is Meta

That's meta

That is so Meta

Wait so who is suing who?

Meta-morphosis going on here

How very…Meta.

You ever heard in closure and you have to figure out everything by yourself wondering where $8,000 went in 3 years where all the investment money is and why it's not in my account

Wow that's meta

Metaception

There needs to be a meeting of the Metas...

Why didn't the Zuck just pivot and rebrand as Metastatic? Too true to form?

Is this The Onion?

Quite Meta

That’s so Meta.

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