{"id":489015,"date":"2023-04-25T14:21:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T12:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=489015"},"modified":"2023-04-25T14:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T12:24:01","slug":"openai-launches-trademark-application-for-gpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/489015-openai-launches-trademark-application-for-gpt.html","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI tries to speed up trademark application for GPT"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI applied for a trademark to block other companies from using the “GPT” acronym in December 2022, as several are piggybacking off the popularity of ChatGPT, TechCrunch reports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

GPT is short for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, and the company’s chatbot-like language model ChatGPT launched in November 2022.<\/p>\n

Since its launch, similar applications with names like ThreatGPT, MedicalGPT, DateGPT and DirtyGPT have started to appear, prompting the company to protect its brand.<\/p>\n

In March 2023, OpenAI petitioned to have the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) speed up the process. It cited a “myriad infringements and counterfeit apps” that are starting to materialise.<\/p>\n

However, the USPTO dismissed its petition, claiming that the startup’s attorneys failed to pay an associated fee and provide “appropriate documentary evidence supporting the justification of special action.”<\/p>\n

Therefore, the outcome of its trademark application could still take months to be finalised.<\/p>\n

Partner in the intellectual property group of Carr & Ferrell and chair of the firm’s trademark practice group Jefferson Scher told TechCrunch there is no guarantee that OpenAI could end up owning the “GPT” name.<\/p>\n

However, one aspect favouring the startup’s application is that it has used the “GPT” abbreviation for years, since GPT-1 in October 2018.<\/p>\n

If the USPTO has no problem with OpenAI’s application, it will be moved to an “opposition period”, where other market participants can argue why the agency should deny the “GPT” trademark.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Google’s AI tool can now code in more than 20 languages<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OpenAI petitioned to speed up a trademark application for “GPT” that it first lodged in December 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":477455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[83065,45266,85779],"class_list":["post-489015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-chatgpt","tag-openai","tag-united-states-patent-and-trademark-office-uspto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489077,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489015\/revisions\/489077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}