Elon Musk's Terafab Faces Trademark Dispute Over Its Name
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Tesla Faces Trademark Dispute Over Terafab Chip Factory
On September 19, 2026, Tesla, along with SpaceX and xAI, is embroiled in a trademark dispute over its Terafab chip factory, which has yet to produce any chips. The conflict began when Tera-Print, a nano-manufacturing equipment firm based in Illinois, issued a cease-and-desist letter in May, demanding that Tesla and SpaceX cease using the Terafab [...]
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. 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-…
The ambitious Terafab project of Tesla and SpaceX received letters of cessation and withdrawal from Tera-Print, a company that claims to use the brand Tera-Fab for almost a decade to sell lithography tools.
Elon Musk's Terafab hits a roadblock before making a single chip, receives cease-and-desist order — firm files trademark lawsuit, has sold Tera-Fab-branded lithography tools for over a decade
Elon Musk's Terafab semiconductor project has run into an unexpected trademark dispute with Tera-print, a small U.S. company that has used the Tera-Fab name for its tabletop lithography equipment for about a decade.
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