United States The Patent Office and Trademarks rejected the neuralink trademark attempts at the names of telepathy and telekinesis, citing the expectations of another person for the same trademarks.
Neuralink, a brain implant company appointed by Elon Musk, submitted freight names in March. But in letters sent to Neuralink in August, the trademark office refuses to permission for further applications. He says that Wesley Berry, an IT specialist and co -founder of the Prophecy of the Technological Start, previously applied for telepathy in May 2023 and Telekines in August 2024. The prophecy is building a headphone set to wear to cause conscious dream, but only Berry is the author of goods, not prophetic applications. (Berry refused to comment on this story.)
In response to the Neuralink application for telepathy, the trademark office also refers to the existing trademark for Telepathy Labs, a company based in Tampa, which provides interactive voice and chatbot technology.
Meanwhile, Neuralink Muska is developing a brain-crap interface that includes a device, surgically implanted in a skull that collects brain activity. The company uses the name of telepathy to describe its first product, which aims to enable paralyzed people to operate their phones and computers using their thoughts. Musk presented the name Telepathy in January 2024 Post on social mediaShortly after the company implanted its first volunteer with technology. According to Announcement in July. (Neuralink did not answer the request for comment.)
Both Berry and Neuralk submitted applications for “intention to use”, which allow companies and inventors to reserve trademarks before using the trade mark. Berry’s application for telepathy was accepted in December 2024. and for telekinesis In August 2025 But trademarks are not fully registered until he shows that he actually uses them in trade. Berry is three years senior to do this from acceptance, otherwise his conclusions would be considered abandoned and Neuralink’s conclusion would have priority.
Berry did not sell or commercialized a product called telepathy or telekinesis, but in his trademark applications he describes both “software that is analyzed by EEG to decode internal dialogue to control computer or mobile devices.” EEG or electroencephalogram data refers to the electrical activity of the brain recorded by electrodes worn on the scalp.
The list of trademark office to Neuralink is not the last decisions. Neuralink submitted a letter from the answer on August 28, in which they refer to the existing trademark of Labs Telepathy, saying that the neuralink telepathy product probably will not be mistaken for telepathy laboratories. Neuralink did not apply to Berry’s conclusions in her answer.
“The standard of probability of confusion is that if a random consumer encountered both of these products, do they think they come from the same company?” Says Heather Antoine, an intellectual property partner at Stoel Rives, Sacramento, California.
The trademark office will consider Neuralink’s answer and decide if there is a probability of confusion. But there is still the fact that Berry has submitted a request to register telepathy and telekinesis first. If Berry manages to register, Neuralink would have several options. He may try to buy trademarks from Berry or negotiate a agreement in which Berry may agree to the neuralkl permit to utilize the signs. These types of contracts are usually concluded when trademarks probably do not cause consumers’ confusion.
If Berry successfully records telepathy, neuralink may be sued if the company continues to utilize it.
Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer and founder of Gerben IP in Washington, claims that it is challenging to know how he is buried, because there are many nuances in a claim for a trademark. “Certainly, the advantage goes to the second applicant,” he says, referring to Berry. “He could become a significant thorn on the side of Neuralk in terms of these trademarks.”