3 months ago
- OpenAI lost a legal challenge at the EU's General Court over trademark registration for "OPENAI" due to the term being deemed descriptive and lacking distinctiveness for certain software and IT goods/services.
- The court upheld the EU Intellectual Property Office's decision, which partially rejected the registration based on public perception of "open" as freely accessible and "AI" as artificial intelligence, making it descriptive of openly accessible AI products.
- OpenAI argued the term was coined and ambiguous, citing previous registrations in other countries, but the court found it not unusual in English and ruled other jurisdictions' decisions non-binding under EU law, though the ruling can be appealed to the European Court of Justice.