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by tgv 860 days ago
Weirdly enough, Microsoft did get a trademark on "Windows". Perhaps OpenAI was counting on a similar decision.
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Kbelicius 860 days ago
AFAIK 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.
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jbenjoseph 860 days ago
This is called "descriptiveness", a very bad quality for a trademark application to have.
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bonton89 860 days ago
Microsoft 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.
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kube-system 860 days ago
That’s because it is expensive for kids to defend lawsuits, not because a court agreed.
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mtlmtlmtlmtl 859 days ago
Still redirects to microsoft.com
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hulitu 860 days ago
They have money, you know ...
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