AFAIK trademarks are granted for products. Microsoft was granted that trademark ...

		Kbelicius on Feb 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI – Application for US trademark “GPT” has fa... AFAIK trademarks are granted for products. Microsoft was granted that trademark for software. If you opened a window shop and tried to trademark windows you'd fail since it is an existing term in that category. Similarly GPT is a term used in the filed of AI and thus would not be allowed to be trademarked in that category. I'm sure a window shop could trademark GPT for their line of windows.

This is called "descriptiveness", a very bad quality for a trademark application to have.