OpenAI has filed a trademark software for its newest AI mannequin, o1, because the agency strikes to defend its IP.
On Tuesday, OpenAI submitted paperwork to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Workplace (USPTO) to register the trademark “OpenAI o1.” Apparently, the paperwork reveal that OpenAI filed for a overseas trademark software in Jamaica in Could, months earlier than o1 was introduced.
The USPTO hasn’t granted OpenAI the trademark but. In response to the workplace’s on-line database, the applying is presently awaiting project to an analyzing legal professional.
OpenAI has stated that it intends for o1, its first “reasoning” mannequin, to broaden right into a sequence of fashions skilled to carry out complicated duties. In contrast to most fashions, reasoning fashions successfully fact-check themselves by spending extra time contemplating a query or question — serving to them keep away from some frequent AI pitfalls.
OpenAI, which has filed for round 30 trademark registrations up to now, together with for “ChatGPT,” “Sora,” “GPT-4o,” and “DALL-E,” famously didn’t trademark “GPT” in February after the USPTO dominated that the time period was too generic. GPT, which stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer,” was in use in different contexts and by different corporations when OpenAI submitted its software, the workplace famous.
OpenAI hasn’t aggressively asserted its emblems but — save for one. For a number of years, the startup has been preventing technologist Man Ravine for the best to make use of “Open AI,” which Ravine claims he pitched as part of an “open supply” AI imaginative and prescient round 2015, the identical yr OpenAI was based.
A federal circuit court docket upheld a preliminary injunction in OpenAI’s favor early this fall, ruling that OpenAI was prone to prevail towards Ravine.
