<story><title>OpenAI has applied for “GPT” trademark with USPTO</title><url>https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&amp;state=4802:jtelqq.2.16</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amrrs</author><text>For those unaware - GPT stands for Generative pre-trained transformers (GPT). It&amp;#x27;s a type of a deep neural network architecture that builds on top of Transformers which was released by Google researchers. I&amp;#x27;m wondering what would happen if someone copyrights &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; now :-&amp;#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisco255</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a trademark application, not a copyright application. Quite different. You see copyrighted material is that which a GPT has been trained on, without any regards to those rights or protections. While a GPT trademark, on the other hand, is an underhanded attempt to leverage that same disregarded legal protection to secure an exclusive brand for itself, in spite of existing uses of the generic acronym.</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenAI has applied for “GPT” trademark with USPTO</title><url>https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&amp;state=4802:jtelqq.2.16</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amrrs</author><text>For those unaware - GPT stands for Generative pre-trained transformers (GPT). It&amp;#x27;s a type of a deep neural network architecture that builds on top of Transformers which was released by Google researchers. I&amp;#x27;m wondering what would happen if someone copyrights &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; now :-&amp;#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>breck</author><text>Not that it matters much, but I&amp;#x27;m curious who first coined the specific &amp;quot;GPT&amp;quot; term?&lt;p&gt;The first occurrence of that particular term I can find on Google Scholar is in 2019 (&amp;quot;Documentation is all you need&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scholar.google.com&amp;#x2F;scholar?q=%22Generative+pre-trained+transformers%22&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;as_sdt=0%2C5&amp;amp;as_ylo=2010&amp;amp;as_yhi=2019&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scholar.google.com&amp;#x2F;scholar?q=%22Generative+pre-train...&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;Edit: it looks like it was OpenAI. (Radford et al, 2018).</text></comment>