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Re:OpenAI – Application for US trademark "GPT" has failed by Kbelicius on Thursday February 15, 2024 @06:48AM (#39381594)
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 (#39382793)
This is called "descriptiveness", a very bad quality for a trademark application to have.