In recent days, one of the most talked-about companies, OpenAI, faced some negative news. The United States Patent and Trademark Office rejected the company’s application for the patent of the GPT term. OpenAI’s patent application, made last year, came into the spotlight following the tremendous popularity of the ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot, which led to the emergence of various technologies using the GPT name. Wanting to put a stop to what they perceived as imitation, the company submitted an official patent application. However, things didn’t go as planned. Here are the details…

OpenAI could not obtain the patent for GPT!

The members of the United States Patent and Trademark Office who rejected OpenAI’s patent application ruled that the term GPT is not a specific name that could belong to any entity. According to the decision of the office, the abbreviation GPT, derived from the words Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is the name of a general artificial intelligence technology, and any company using this technology has the right to use this abbreviation in its own product.

While OpenAI executives strongly objected to this decision, claiming that if it weren’t for the popularity gained by ChatGPT, nobody would be aware of the GPT term, they argued that they introduced this word to the public, and therefore, the right to use it should belong to them. The executives are concerned that imitating firms may increase their activities based on this decision.

With the magnificent development of artificial intelligence technologies, OpenAI has become one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. It seems that OpenAI will continue to be discussed in the coming days. The impact of the outcome of the patent case on ordinary users remains a topic of curiosity.

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