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Is BlenderGPT really a registered trademark?

Surely it infringes on Blender's (unregistered) trademark, but maybe the registration process only reviews exisiting registered marks, and it'd be up to the Blender Foundation to challenge the use of BlenderGPT. On the other hand, the USPTO trademark search didn't turn up any relevant results for BlenderGPT even though the terms of service on the site seem to indicate a US based company.

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"Unregistered"? Blender is a registered trademark in both the US and the EU. Their brand guideline page explicitly calls out that you are not allowed to use their name in your own product: https://www.blender.org/about/logo/#trademark

Oh, huh. I assumed it was not registered since Blender uses "™" instead of "®" at the top of its homepage. I guess that's just for the logo then, not the wordmark.

Amusingly, you don't have to use either for it to be a registered trademark, it just makes it "more obvious". It also makes word marks look like corporate capitalist nonsense, so leaving it off does all of us a service =D

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