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Elon Musk’s Neuralink Files to Trademark ‘Telepathy’

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Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink has filed trademark applications for Telepathy , Telekinesis , and others.

The company is developing a brain-computer interface, a system that decodes brain activity to control an output device.

Musk has said that the company’s first product will be called Telepathy and will allow people with paralysis the ability to control a computer or phone just by thinking.

Neuralink’s technology has not received regulatory approval and is still experimental.

Descriptive words that describe a feature of a product or service cannot be trademarked.

Registering a trademark is a complex process that takes 12 to 18 months .

That process could be slowed by staff cuts if staff cuts hit the USPTO .