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They are going to try to stop that train. They have a pending application for a trademark on the term GPT and I suspect they wouldn't have applied for trademark
by criddell 4y ago
They are going to try to stop that train. They have a pending application for a trademark on the term GPT and I suspect they wouldn't have applied for trademark protection if they didn't intend to stop others from using it.
- manyoso 4y agoAnd they should fail. The term is generic and widely used before they tried to brand with it.
- criddell 4y agoThey already have been granted trademark protection for GPT-3[1]. If I had to place a bet one way or the other, I would guess they will get GPT as well. You say it's widely used but even here GPT is mostly synonymous with OpenAI products and services. Even in this thread, plenty of people are complaining about the confusion caused by the name GPT4All. [1]: https://trademarks.justia.com/900/92/gpt-90092493.html https://trademarks.justia.com/900/92/gpt-90092493.html
- manyoso 4y agoThe fact that this confusion exists actually argues why they shouldn't be granted it actually as this project exists prior to them receiving it.
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- manyoso 4y agoBut they didn't trademark GPT which would be the case if your analogy was to work.
- criddell 4y agoIt's pending.
- manyoso 4y agoAnd they didn't because GPT was a term of art in the industry long before it was a gleam in OpenAI's trademarking eyes.
- criddell 4y agoDo you have a source for that? I thought it came from the 2018 OpenAI paper "Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training".