[celeritascelery]

GitHub 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]

Simply 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

[pulvinar]

Presumedly they would likewise register "Flux Copilot"?

[gojomo]

Do you think I could offer a custom-built Windows PC under the registered trademark "Gordon's Macintosh"?

[pulvinar]

Except that "copilot" doesn't appear to be registered by itself in this field, only in combinations. But we'll see.