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Weirdly enough, Microsoft did get a trademark on "Windows". Perhaps OpenAI was counting on a similar decision.
by tgv 3y ago
Weirdly enough, Microsoft did get a trademark on "Windows". Perhaps OpenAI was counting on a similar decision.
- hulitu 3y agoThey have money, you know ...
- Kbelicius 3y agoAFAIK trademarks are granted for products. Microsoft was granted that trademark for software. If you opened a window shop and tried to trademark windows you'd fail since it is an existing term in that category. Similarly GPT is a term used in the filed of AI and thus would not be allowed to be trademarked in that category. I'm sure a window shop could trademark GPT for their line of windows.
- jbenjoseph 3y agoThis is called "descriptiveness", a very bad quality for a trademark application to have.
- bonton89 3y agoMicrosoft once sued a teenager for trademark infringement for having a website called MikeRoweSoft.com. The kid's name was Mike Rowe and he lost the website in a settlement.
- kube-system 3y agoThat’s because it is expensive for kids to defend lawsuits, not because a court agreed.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoStill redirects to microsoft.com