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by stavros 1040 days ago
But can you trademark a vacuum cleaner called Vacuum-3 and expect the trademark for the word "vacuum" to be awarded to you?

What OpenAI did was the opposite of what you describe, they took an already-generic term and used it for a product name. I wouldn't be surprised if they can't actually trademark that.

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> I wouldn't be surprised if they can't actually trademark that.

I think the same. The could probably trademark "ChatGPT", but not "GPT" alone.