“ThreatGPT, MedicalGPT, DateGPT and DirtyGPT are a mere sampling of the numerous outfits to use for logos with the US Patent and Trademark Workplace in latest months,” notes TechCrunch, exploring the problem of whether or not OpenAI can really trademark the phrase ‘GPT’…
Little marvel that after making use of in late December for a trademark for “GPT,” which stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer,” OpenAI final month petitioned the USPTO to hurry up the method, citing the “myriad infringements and counterfeit apps” starting to spring into existence. Sadly for OpenAI, its petition was dismissed final week… Given the remainder of the queue through which OpenAI finds itself, which means a call may take as much as 5 extra months, says Jefferson Scher, a associate within the mental property group of Carr & Ferrell and chair of the agency’s trademark observe group. Even then, the result is not assured, Scher explains… [H]elpful, says Scher, is the truth that OpenAI has been utilizing “GPT” for years, having launched its authentic Generative Pre-trained Transformer mannequin, or GPT-1, again in October 2018…
Even when a USPTO examiner has no downside with OpenAI’s utility, will probably be moved afterward to a so-called opposition interval, the place different market members can argue why the company ought to deny the “GPT” trademark. Scher describes what would comply with this fashion: Within the case of OpenAI, an opposer would problem Open AI’s place that “GPT” is proprietary and that the general public perceives it as such as a substitute of perceiving the acronym to pertain to generative AI extra broadly…
All of it begs the query of why the corporate did not transfer to guard “GPT” sooner. Right here, Scher speculates that the corporate was “most likely caught off guard” by its personal success… One other wrinkle right here is that OpenAI could quickly be so well-known that its renown turns into a dominant issue, says Scher. Whereas one would not should be well-known to safe a trademark, as soon as an outfit is broadly sufficient acknowledged, it receives safety that extends far past its sphere. Rolex is simply too well-known a trademark for use on anything, for example.
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