In short
- Ex populus, maker of the Xai Gaming Blockchain, sues Elon Musk’s Xai for trademark infringement and asks a court to block the use of the name “Xai” in gaming and blockchain.
- The company says that the expansion of Musk from Xai to Gaming has caused confusion with media, users and even X’s own AI -Chatbot Grok, which wrongly connected the two companies.
- Ex populus claims that the controversies of Musk, including the earlier attacking remarks of Grok, have seriously damaged his brand.
The makers of XaiA Layer-3-Gamingblockchain built on Ethereum, has sued Elon Musk’s Xai for trademarks and questions a federal court to force the artificial intelligence company of the billionaire to change its name and branding into contexts related to video games and blockchain.
In November, Musk announced plans to start an AI video studio within Xai, to ‘make games great again’. Ex Poppus, the company behind Gaming Blockchain Xai, now claims that the announcement of Musk immediately created online ‘substantial actual confusion’ online between their established video brand brand, Xai, and Musk’s Xai -Gaming company.
Numerous news aggregators and commentators used the logo of the blockchain in announcements about Musk’s company, claim the company’s lawyers, and many more internet users have the individual companies watching. What is more, grok – musk’s ai chatbot – also confused the two individual entities and told X users that they were both controlled by Musk’s companies, the lawyers said.
In a complaint that was submitted on Thursday, EX Populus asked a federal court in North California to order the AI company of Musk to stop using words or symbols that probably cause confusion with the registered trademark of Xai, in the context of VideoGaming and Blockchain.
It also asked for punitive compensation and all the profits practiced by Musk’s companies for the alleged infringement.
The lawyers of Ex Poppus have repeatedly argued in their complaint that the MUSK company has not only had consistently violated their copyright since last year – but further that the specific awareness and controversy in connection with the richest man in the world has made the alleged infringement particularly harmful to their brand.
“The Xai company of Musk and defendants gets routinely substantive negative media attention that is now attributed to the plaintiff’s Xai trading brand,” the lawyers wrote.
The lawyers made a special bill of a controversy that erupted last month when Musk’s Ai Bot, Grok, referred to themselves as “Mechhitler” Made for a short period and anti -Semitic, racist and sexually violent comments on the X platform.
“Plaintiff who loses control of his goodwill is sufficient to support an order to stop using the infringing Xai signs,” said ex populus’s lawyers, “but to be associated with Nazism, hate -sowing speech and violence worsens the damage exponentially.”
Ex populus said in a statement that Musk’s lawyers have recently reached trademark issues, and that the company now has no choice but to fight back “or to lose the risk of losing the risk [the trademark] absolutely. ”
“This case is not just about ex populus or xai,” the company said. “It speaks to something bigger: converting the right of smaller innovators without swallowing their identity by technical giants.”
Musk’s Xai did not respond immediately DecryptThe request for comments on this story.
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