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"Microsoft for essentially "stealing" another company's product name"

Yeah...no. You should know better. If Facebook has trademarked "metaverse", then there would be a problem because consumers could potentially have a problem distinguishing competing virtual realities. Since "metaverse" is from Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel "Snow Crash" in the first place, I doubt Facebook or Microsoft has a real "intellectual property" claim on the word in the first place.

My viewpoint is that Microsoft using "metaverse" is a lot like both Kroger and Safeway using "meat". And that you can have physical property, or intellectual property, but not both.