Elon Musk's Terafab Faces Trademark Dispute Over Its Name
Tesla, SpaceX, and SpaceXAI have taken a trademark dispute over the "Terafab" name to federal court, PCMag reports.
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What happened
Tesla, SpaceX, and SpaceXAI have taken a trademark dispute over the "Terafab" name to federal court, PCMag reports. The declaratory judgment action was filed on September 15 in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas. It asks a judge to rule that Terafab does not infringe the "Tera-Fab" mark of Illinois nanotechnology firm Tera-print, which covers a desktop photolithography system used by researchers. Tera-print sent a cease-and-desist letter on May 23, days after Tesla filed its own Terafab trademark applications on May 18. Six settlement meetings between June and August apparently went nowhere, and Tera-print says it will defend its rights. Nothing has been decided yet, and the claims are each side's own.
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