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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has denied OpenAI’s attempt to trademark “GPT,” ruling that the term is “merely descriptive” and therefore unable to be registered. I

The federal government agency responsible for granting patents and trademarks has confirmed it inadvertently exposed about 61,000 filers’ private addresses in a years-long data spill. The U.S. P

I was lucky to speak with Michelle K. Lee, current director of the US Patent Office and a great proponent of small startups and innovation. Lee said that the patent office has a number of free resourc

A company's logo is an important part of its identity, but the process behind defining, registering and protecting these trademarks is a convoluted and rather archaic one. A startup called TrademarkVi

Right after it launched the iPad mini, Apple filed a trademark application for the name with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). As Patently Apple noticed earlier today, however, th

Google today <a target="_blank" href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/08/improving-google-patents-with-european.html">expanded</a> its search coverage for patents by adding millions of documents

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/uspto.jpg" /> During my tech days, I co-authored four software patents. Each cost my startup about $15,000—which seemed like a fortune in th