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Why on earth would you call this "copilot" when GitHub has already long established that as a name in this space? :I
by fortyseven 3y ago
Why on earth would you call this "copilot" when GitHub has already long established that as a name in this space? :I
- UncleOxidant 3y agoYeah, this seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Rename it to 'Solder' or something before that happens.
- celeritascelery 3y agoGitHub doesn’t own the copilot trademark. I would actually like to have these assistants called “copilots” instead of “coding LLM”. Since these are going to be a part of our lives let’s use a useful and memorable name.
- gojomo 3y agoSimply via commercial use, Github could choose to assert a common-law trademark on 'Copilot' within their field-of-use. But also, they've registered "Github Copilot" at the USPTO: https://trademarks.justia.com/974/60/github-97460083.html https://trademarks.justia.com/974/60/github-97460083.html
- pulvinar 3y agoPresumedly they would likewise register "Flux Copilot"?
- paulgb 3y agoI believe aviators have been using it longer.
- gojomo 3y agoIndeed, but under trademark law, the context-of-use matters, and is what allows generic terms from one domain – like 'copilot', 'apple', 'slack', 'y combinator' – to become defensible trademarks in another commercial-offerings domain. From this landing page's headline & 1st paragraph, I was still thinking they were talking about the broader-market, better-known Github Copilot – also a for-pay LLM-driven coding assistant! – in some way. In the 2nd paragraph, I saw they were just reusing the name of someone else's LLM coding assistant for something different that they independently trained. Note also the current submission headline here is "ChatGPT for Hardware Design", not the page's "AI For Hardware Design with Copilot". Did the submitter not use the usually-requested original page title, because they knew `Copilot` would be misunderstood? (They created another misunderstanding via their change: ChatGPT is only an analogy for what Flux.ai's product is doing, rather than a contributing part of the system.)
- gowld 3y agoIf they aren't using ChatGPT in Flux.ai, that's textbook trademark misuse! Check out my new product -- It's Windows for Raspberry Pi! (Actually a Ubuntu port)
- gojomo 3y agoTheir page doesn't mention 'ChatGPT' - that analogy was added by the submitter. But, Flux.ai has named their LLM-based coding assistant 'Copilot'.
- iamflimflam1 3y agoWas wondering the same thing - just seems a bit daft and is going to really confuse people.
- Czarcasm 3y agoGithub can't monopolize the word "copilot". It's a basic english word to describe someone that is assisting you to steer a vessel/team/project. It's been around for hundreds of years in naval industry, and in aviation since the dawn of flight.
- gowld 3y agoOh they can if they get a trademark. It's a navigational term, but not a computing term. Inventing a new meaning for a word standard use of trademark.
- oehtXRwMkIs 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Energy#Trademark_protection_and_lawsuits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Energy#Trademark_prote...