The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in separate decisions issued in early February, denied OpenAI’s applications to trademark “ChatGPT” and “GPT.”
OpenAI has the option to appeal the decisions to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board within three months. But if the rulings stand, they will prevent the company from defending its exclusive use of the phrases, opening them up to widespread adoption as common terms across the industry.
The trademark examining attorney wrote, in part:
