Domain investors eager to capitalize on the popularity of ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot by OpenAI, take notice: you might be infringing on the company’s trademark.
Just two months after rolling out a public beta of ChatGPT, the service surpassed 100 million users, faster than any other service in recent memory. That makes ChatGPT a valuable IP asset and that means both the underlying technology and the ChatGPT mark are worth a very high number.
If you are the registrant of the domain ChatGPT.com or similar domain names, you might get contacted by OpenAI once their mark application for CHATGPT gets processed, and that might not be good news.
In December, OpenAI filed an application for the mark’s registration at the USPTO, as an intent to use mark, for the following products and services:
- downloadable computer programs and downloadable computer software for the artificial production of human speech and text; downloadable computer programs and downloadable computer software for natural language processing, generation, understanding and analysis; downloadable computer programs and downloadable computer software for machine-learning based language and speech processing software; downloadable computer chatbot software for simulating conversations; downloadable computer programs and downloadable computer software for creating and generating text
- providing online non-downloadable software for the artificial production of human speech and text; providing online non-downloadable software for natural language processing, generation, understanding and analysis; providing online non-downloadable software for machine-learning based language and speech processing software; providing online non-downloadable chatbot software for simulating conversations; providing online non-downloadable software for creating and generating text; research and development services in the field of artificial intelligence; research, design and development of computer programs and software
ChatGPT is an acronym for “Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer” and some silly opportunist is selling the matching .com domain on Dan.
While sales of domains that include ChatGPT have been reported, this doesn’t mean it’s safe to continue registering such domains; just remember what happened with the “meta domains” craze.
