{"id":4030,"date":"2024-02-18T07:53:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T23:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2024-02-18T07:53:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T23:53:25","slug":"%e7%be%8e%e5%9b%bd%e4%b8%93%e5%88%a9%e5%b1%80%e6%8b%92%e7%bb%9d-openai-%e5%b0%86gpt%e6%b3%a8%e5%86%8c%e4%b8%ba%e5%95%86%e6%a0%87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/4030.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Patent Office Denies OpenAI&#039;s Trademark Application for &quot;GPT&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-vmark=\"fa67\">US Patents<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%95%86%e6%a0%87\" title=\"[See articles with [mark] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >trademark<\/a>Bureau (PTO) Rejected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/openai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [OpenAI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >OpenAI<\/a> Will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/gpt\" title=\"_OTHER ORGANISER\" target=\"_blank\" >GPT<\/a> They have registered the term as a trademark, arguing that GPT means Generative Pre-trained Transformer \u2014 an overly general term.<span class=\"accentTextColor\">Competitors may be prevented from describing their products as GPT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"3e2c\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4031\" title=\"d5b9ba26-5242-4f5c-bbe0-b2679b23d2fc\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/d5b9ba26-5242-4f5c-bbe0-b2679b23d2fc.png\" alt=\"d5b9ba26-5242-4f5c-bbe0-b2679b23d2fc\" width=\"732\" height=\"487\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"6ddd\">OpenAI argues that GPT is not a descriptive word or a generic term that consumers would \u201cinstantly understand\u201d what it means.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"e78a\">The PTO wrote in its Feb. 6 decision that it does not matter that consumers do not know what GPT means \u2014 because those who use the technology do understand\u00a0<span class=\"accentTextColor\">GPT refers to a general type of software<\/span>, not just OpenAI products.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"d6e6\">Since the rise of generative AI, many other AI services have added GPT to their product names.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"bd11\">According to theverge, the term GPT became closely associated with OpenAI after ChatGPT and its AI model GPT-3 (and later GPT-4) became popular. When it opened ChatGPT to external developers, the company also called its custom chatbot GPT. Recently, however, OpenAI has been giving different brand names to other services, such as a text-to-video generation model called Sora.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"8ec0\">This is not the first time the United States has rejected OpenAI\u2019s trademark claim against GPT.<span class=\"accentTextColor\">The last time was in May 2023<\/span>The company could appeal again to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, again asking to register the term GPT as a trademark.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) denied OpenAI's trademark registration of the term GPT, arguing that GPT means Generative Pre-Training Transformer - an overly general term that could prevent competitors from describing their products as GPT. OpenAI argued that GPT is not a descriptive term, nor is it a generic term that consumers would \"immediately understand\". OpenAI argues that GPT is not a descriptor, nor is it a generic term that consumers will \"immediately understand\". The PTO wrote in its Feb. 6 decision that it doesn't matter that consumers don't know what GPT means -- because those who use the technology understand that GPT refers to a generic type of software, not just OpenAI products. Since the rise of generative AI, many other AI services have incorporated<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[271,190,527],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-4030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gpt","tag-openai","tag-527"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}