{"id":3527,"date":"2021-11-02T06:55:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T05:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/02\/parallel-metaverses-zuckerbergs-meta-might-meet-a-trademark-challenge-from-meta-pcs\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T06:55:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T05:55:47","slug":"parallel-metaverses-zuckerbergs-meta-might-meet-a-trademark-challenge-from-meta-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/02\/parallel-metaverses-zuckerbergs-meta-might-meet-a-trademark-challenge-from-meta-pcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallel metaverses: Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta might meet a trademark challenge from META PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A computer company for gamers says it filed to trademark the name a year ago<\/p>\n<p>Meta PCs, an Arizona-based company that sells computers, laptops and software for gamers was an unremarkable retail outfit a week ago. Then on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his company would be changing its name to Meta and it found itself in an IP war with tech\u2019s biggest behemoth.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky for Meta PCs, it\u2019s already a few months ahead of Facebook in having the name trademarked. According to a document shared by TMZ, the company filed for its trademark in August, a little over a year after it was started.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/02\/meta-parallel-metaverses-facebook-name-change-challenged\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/107507464926bde90c474659e45b8633955e142b\/87_0_1802_1082\/master\/1802.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a42acc74c9e0dd8737d61ddc912d2081\" title=\"Parallel metaverses: Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta might meet a trademark challenge from META PCs\" \/>A computer company for gamers says it filed to trademark the name a year ago<br \/>\nMeta PCs, an Arizona-based company that sells computers, laptops and software for gamers was an unremarkable retail outfit a week ago. Then on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his company would be changing its name to Meta and it found itself in an IP war with tech\u2019s biggest behemoth.<br \/>\nLucky for Meta PCs, it\u2019s already a few months ahead of Facebook in having the name trademarked. According to a document shared by TMZ, the company filed for its trademark in August, a little over a year after it was started. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A computer company for gamers says it filed to trademark the name a year ago Meta PCs, an Arizona-based company that sells computers, laptops and software for gamers was an unremarkable retail outfit a week ago. Then on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his company would be changing its name to Meta and it &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/02\/parallel-metaverses-zuckerbergs-meta-might-meet-a-trademark-challenge-from-meta-pcs\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parallel metaverses: Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta might meet a trademark challenge from META PCs<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}