Elon Musk’s neural implant startup Neuralink has been trying to trademark two product names: Telepathy and Telekinesis. Musk has previously claimed that his company will be able to give people “ superpowers ,” so the desire to take ownership over these special abilities makes sense. Unfortunately for Neuralink, patent applications for Telepathy and Telekinesis have already been filed by a different business.

Wired reports that a lucid dreaming startup (who knew there was such a thing?) called Prophetic previously filed trademark applications for Telepathy in 2023 and Telekinesis last summer. Prophetic’s website, which says the company is “pioneering a radical transformation of the human experience,” is owned by a computer scientist named Wesley Berry. Berry’s company seeks to create a

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