US Government Confirms OpenAI Unable to Patent ‘GPT’ Trademark
In a setback to OpenAI, the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has refused to allow a company led by Sam Altman to trademark the word GPT (generative pre-trained transformer).
In its filing with the US PTO, the Microsoft-backed company argued that GPT is not a “descriptive term” because consumers do not immediately understand what the underlying term “generative pre-trained transformer” means.
“Trademark counsel is unconvinced. Internet evidence demonstrates widespread and widespread use of the acronym ‘GPT’ in the software industry in connection with software that incorporates similar AI technology with question-and-answer functions based on pre-trained datasets,” the US PTO wrote in its decision.
The fact that consumers may not know the words behind the acronym “does not change the fact that buyers have come to understand that the term ‘GPT’ is commonly used in software contexts to identify a particular type of software that includes this artificial intelligence. ask and answer technology”.
As the creative use of AI increased last year, several AI companies added GPT to their brand names. However, GPT became popular after OpenAI released ChatGPT, an AI model that takes user prompts to respond like humans.
The company started calling its custom chatbots GPTs and has just released its next generation text-to-video model called Sora. Reports also claim that OpenAI has inked a deal that values the AI giant at a whopping $80 billion, thanks to its conquest of the AI arena over the past 12 months.
