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USPTO denies OpenAI’s attempts to trademark ‘ChatGPT’ and ‘GPT’

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Patent and Trademark Office, in separate decisions issued in early February, denied OpenAI’s applications to trademark “ChatGPT” and “GPT.” The Redmond company has applied for related trademarks in conjunction with other brand names, such as GitHub Copilot.

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CES 2023: A list of Washington state companies showing off their latest tech gadgets and services

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The big Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is returning to Las Vegas this week with its usual array of companies, gadgets and services, and Washington state will be represented by startups, tech giants and those in between. based Bluetooth SIG is a community of companies working to expand the capabilities of Bluetooth technology.

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Tech Moves: Nintex founder named CEO at WellSaid Labs; F5 hires CISO; Slalom appoints execs

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Cook helped start Nintex in 2004 and was chairman of the business process automation software company until 2018. The company serves thousands of customers that use its software for corporate training, advertising, product experiences, video production, publishing, audiobooks, and more. Samir Sherif. (F5

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Apptio makes another acquisition, buying enterprise agile planning startup Targetprocess

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Founded in 2004, Belarus-based Targetprocess took 14 years to snag its first funding ( a $5 million Series A ). ” The company declined to share how many Targetprocess employees would be staying on with Apptio or how the acquisition, which closed earlier this month, is structured.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Google set to bring employees back to Seattle-area offices at least three days a week in hybrid model

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As more companies announce plans for how and where employees will work after two years of COVID-19-induced office closures, Google said Wednesday it plans to use the month of March to help employees transition to new routines. Google was the first Silicon Valley tech company to establish an engineering outpost in the Seattle area in 2004.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft vet named CEO at EnterpriseDB; Adaptive CCO departs; Temporal hires ex-Hashicorp EVP

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based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB). Later, he became a senior advisor at TPG, leading its portfolio company Wind River as CEO and overseeing its $3.5 Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database. billion acquisition by Aptiv in 2022.