'OpenAI has plenty of reasons to expect that it will be able to secure the patent,' says a legal expert.
Following the success of its sensational chatbot, ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence research group OpenAI applied for a trademark for "GPT" in late December.
However, the United States Patent and Trademark Office dismissed OpenAI's petition last week, claiming a failure to pay a related fee and presenting "appropriate documentary evidence supporting the justification of special action,"But "OpenAI has plenty of reasons to expect that it will be able to secure the patent," Jefferson Scher, a partner in Carr & Ferrell's intellectual property group, toldSince the "T" in GPT refers to "Transformer," a...
"That's no guarantee [OpenAI] could end up owning [GPT]," but it's a start. "Can GPT be a brand even if it has a very descriptive origin?" Scher wonders. Meanwhile, it could take another five months before OpenAI's petition is decided. The corporation can stop others from using the trademark widely if OpenAI successfully obtains it, even if it may be challenging to find the violators.
Nevertheless, the fact that OpenAI has been using "GPT" since the October 2018 release of its first Generative Pre-trained Transformer model, or GPT-1, may be advantageous in obtaining the trademark.According to Scher, OpenAI is in a "funny situation" since, up until last year, the firm was known mainly to AI researchers.
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