OpenAI Can’t Patent ‘GPT’ Trademark, Confirms US Govt – News18

In a setback for OpenAI, the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has refused to permit the Sam Altman-run firm to register the phrase GPT (generative pre-skilled transformer) as a trademark.

The Microsoft-backed firm argued in its software with the US PTO that GPT just isn’t a “descriptive word” as a result of shoppers is not going to instantly perceive what the underlying wording “generative pre-trained transformer” means.

“The trademark examining attorney is not convinced. The Internet evidence demonstrates the extensive and pervasive use in the software industry of the acronym ‘GPT’ in connection with software that features similar AI technology with ask and answer functions based on pre-trained data sets,” the US PTO wrote in its choice.

The reality that buyers could not know the underlying phrases of the acronym “does not alter the fact that relevant purchasers are adapted to recognising that the term ‘GPT’ is commonly used in connection with software to identify a particular type of software that features this AI ask and answer technology”.

As generative AI use surged final 12 months, a number of AI corporations added GPT to their product names. However, GPT grew to become in style after OpenAI launched the AI mannequin ChatGPT that takes person prompts to reply in a approach people do.

The firm began calling its customized chatbots GPTs and has simply launched its textual content-to-video era mannequin known as Sora. Reports additionally declare OpenAI has scored a deal which values the AI large at a whopping $80 billion due to its conquest within the AI area during the last 12 months.

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