Tesla (TSLA) Trademark Bid for 'Robotaxi' Rejected by USPTO

Faizan Farooque

Thu, May 8, 2025, 4:54 AM 1 min read

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied Tesla's (TSLA, Financials) bid to trademark Robotaxi, ruling the word excessively generic.

Tesla was denied a trademark connected the word Robotaxi by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which deemed the operation excessively generic. The determination came successful the signifier of a nonfinal bureau enactment connected Tuesday, giving Tesla until aboriginal August to contention oregon revise its filing.

According to TechCrunch, a 2nd exertion from Tesla covering usage of Robotaxi for a aboriginal ride-hailing concern remains nether examination. In a abstracted effort, the company's bid to trademark Cybercab has stalled owed to akin trademarks filed by different companies.

Tesla has not commented publically connected the refusals. The institution antecedently stated it remains connected way to motorboat its autonomous ride-hailing work by June 2025 successful Austin, Texas. However, successful April, Tesla warned it whitethorn person to revise maturation forecasts amid uncertainty from shifting commercialized policies and governmental sentiment.

The trademark roadblocks underline the complications of securing intelligence spot successful a fast-evolving abstraction similar autonomous vehicles, wherever branding whitethorn interaction marketplace positioning and aboriginal monetization.

Investors should ticker for however Tesla responds to the USPTO ruling, arsenic good arsenic the June rollout of its autonomous ride-hailing work successful Texas.

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