Tesla, SpaceX sue nanotech company over 'Terafab' name

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Sept. 16 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's Tesla TSLA.O and SpaceX SPCX.O have sued nanotechnology company TERA-print in Austin, Texas, federal court over the rights to the "Terafab" name for their planned chip plant.

• Musk's companies said in the complaint, filed on Tuesday, that TERA-print sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding they stop using "Terafab" because it would infringe TERA-print's "Tera-Fab" trademark.
• The companies asked the court for a ruling that Terafab would not violate TERA-print's trademark rights.
• Spokespeople for TERA-print and Tesla did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Wednesday.

• The Terafab plant in Grimes County, Texas, will make, package and test advanced logic and memory chips under one roof, producing processors needed to power Tesla's Optimus robots and Cybercabs and high-power chips to run SpaceX's space-based data centers.
• The complaint said that Tesla applied for three "Terafab" trademarks at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in May.
• Illinois-based TERA-print's Tera-Fab is a photolithography printer used in bioengineering and other fields.
• The lawsuit said that TERA-print threatened to sue Tesla and SpaceX for infringing its "Tera-Fab" trademark in June, arguing "Terafab" would create consumer confusion.