OpenAI's GPT Trademark Request Has Been Denied - Lemmy.World

> First, applicant argues that the mark is not merely descriptive because consumers will not immediately > understand what the underlying wording “generative pre-trained transformer” means. The trademark > examining attorney is not convinced. The previously and presently attached Internet evidence > demonstrates the extensive and pervasive use in applicant’s software industry of the acronym “GPT” in > connection with software that features similar AI technology with ask and answer functions based on > pre-trained data sets; the fact that consumers may not know the underlying words of the acronym does > not alter the fact that relevant purchasers are adapted to recognizing that the term “GPT” is commonly > used in connection with software to identify a particular type of software that features this AI ask and > answer technology. Accordingly, this argument is not persuasive.