Re:OpenAI – Application for US trademark "GPT" has failed
by tgv on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:52AM
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Weirdly enough, Microsoft did get a trademark on "Windows". Perhaps OpenAI was counting on a similar decision.
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Re:OpenAI – Application for US trademark "GPT" has failed
by Kbelicius on Thursday February 15, 2024 @06:48AM
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AFAIK trademarks are granted for products. Microsoft was granted that trademark for software. If you opened a window shop and tried to trademark windows you'd fail since it is an existing term in that category. Similarly GPT is a term used in the filed of AI and thus would not be allowed to be trademarked in that category. I'm sure a window shop could trademark GPT for their line of windows.
Re:OpenAI – Application for US trademark "GPT" has failed
by jbenjoseph on Thursday February 15, 2024 @09:02AM
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This is called "descriptiveness", a very bad quality for a trademark application to have.
Re:OpenAI – Application for US trademark "GPT" has failed
by hulitu on Thursday February 15, 2024 @06:11AM
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They have money, you know ...
Re:OpenAI – Application for US trademark "GPT" has failed
by bonton89 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @10:24AM
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Microsoft once sued a teenager for trademark infringement for having a website called MikeRoweSoft.com. The kid's name was Mike Rowe and he lost the website in a settlement.
Re:OpenAI – Application for US trademark "GPT" has failed
by kube-system on Thursday February 15, 2024 @10:46AM
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That’s because it is expensive for kids to defend lawsuits, not because a court agreed.
Re:OpenAI – Application for US trademark "GPT" has failed
by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Thursday February 15, 2024 @01:44PM
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Still redirects to microsoft.com