Foreign media: The China Trademark Office has rejected OpenAI's application to register its new flagship artificial intelligence model "GPT-5" as a trademark in mainland China. OpenAI products are not officially launched in mainland China at present.
Records on the Trademark Office website show that the application submitted by OpenAI subsidiary OpenAI OpCo was rejected and is currently under appeal. This is another rejection following the Trademark Office's rejections of multiple applications by OpenAI for "ChatGPT" and the "GPT" series (covering GPT-4 to GPT-7) between March and November last year, which are also under appeal.
This decision is a blow to OpenAI, headquartered in San Francisco, in protecting its brand in the competitive and rapidly evolving AI industry. In February 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office also rejected OpenAI's application to register "ChatGPT" and "GPT", citing that these names merely describe the functions or characteristics of its products. OpenAI has not yet responded to this.
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1840326569785351/
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