The company has filed for around 30 trademark registrations so far, including “ChatGPT,” “Sora,” “GPT-4o,” and “DALL-E,” but failed to trademark “GPT” as it was deemed too generic. OpenAI has been in a legal battle with technologist Guy Ravine over the use of “Open AI,” which Ravine claims he proposed as part of an “open source” AI vision in 2015. A preliminary injunction was upheld in OpenAI’s favor earlier this fall.
Key takeaways:
- OpenAI has filed a trademark application for its latest AI model, o1, with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and is currently awaiting assignment to an examining attorney.
- The company had previously filed for a foreign trademark application in Jamaica in May, months before o1 was announced.
- OpenAI's o1 is its first “reasoning” model, designed to perform complex tasks and fact-check itself to avoid common AI pitfalls.
- OpenAI has been in a legal battle with technologist and entrepreneur Guy Ravine over the use of the term “Open AI,” with a preliminary injunction recently being upheld in OpenAI's favor.