Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) may have sparked fresh investor curiosity this month when it filed a trademark application for “MEGAPOD,” a name tied to what the company describes as modular hardware systems for artificial intelligence computing.
But Tesla isn’t the first company to stake a claim to the unusual name.
A review of U.S. trademark records shows that MEGAPOD has quietly appeared in filings spanning toys, industrial power systems and outdoor equipment over the past 17 years. The difference is that Tesla’s version could be attached to one of Wall Street’s hottest themes: artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Mattel’s MEGAPOD Never Made It Out Of The Toy Box
The earliest major corporate claim to the name came from Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAT)
