analysis What prompted Elon Musk to name its new venture as Terafab, when it appears to be an existing trademark name

[Finest Domainer]

Recent announcement of Terafab .Ai by Elon Musk as Tesla , Xai and SpaceX co-venture, and domain acquisition were the highlight of this week, perhaps a news that almost underplayed the US-Iran war for a while. But no one noticed the fact that the name TERAFAB is not a newly coined name as one would have expected. It is apparently a registered trademark of TeraBase.

Terabase had been in the news for their recent field testing and physical deployment and robotics platform.
https://www.terabase.energy/resourc...-featured-on-cnn-beyond-cop28-with-bill-gates
https://www.terabase.energy/resourc...-completes-field-testing-ready-for-deployment

 

[Jannes]

I believe it has been noticed all right (e.g. by @katerleonid ), but I'm unsure of its importance. Probably no actual overlap/conflict (even though some Nice class number might be the same "catch-all" category), and in any case companies make agreements all the time.