The Chinese company AI Deepseek was accused of stealing IP, facing privacy inquiries in Europe, and it was a goal A massive electronic attack. Now, the company seems to have a new headache at its hands: the American brand opposes.
On Tuesday, Dibsic Make a request Through the US Patent and brands office (USPTO) it seeks to place a brand for AI Chatbot applications, products and tools. But it was very late. Thirty six hours ago, last The brand company “Deepseek” providedA company based in Dilayer is running called “Delson Group Inc.”
Delson Group confirms that it has been selling Deepseek products that carry the AI brand since early 2020. In its application, the company lists its title as a home in Cobertino, its CEO and its founder as a person named Willie Lu.
Lu, who graduated from the same university as the founder of Dembe, Liang Winfing, University of Zheyang, Claims for his profile LinkedIn To be a “semi -retired” consultant professor in Stanford and Advisor to the Federal Communications Committee. It seems that if he spent most of his career in the wireless industry. last Web pages TECHRUNCH was detected through the email address included in the presentation of the lectures brand and wireless standards training courses.
LU also hosts a “Deepseek” educational course in Las Vegas on “Great Intelligence of AI”, starting at $ 800 for the ticket-which is prominently presented to The website has been linked to the introduction of brands for the Delson Group Group. The site claims that Lu has “about 30 years experience in information and communications technology (information and communications technology) and artificial intelligence fields.”
When a commercial mail comment is reached, tell Lu Techcrunch that he will be ready to “meet and speak” in Palu Alto or Saratoga. (This correspondent is located in New York City.) If he does not respond to the follow -up request.
Josh Genben, a lawyer and founder of GERBEN IP, a legal practice specialized in IP issues, called Delson Group A “brand”. Trademarks are settled for brands with the intention of selling them for profit later – or riding a brand success.
In fact, it seems to have a history of squatting brands. Search for “Delson Group” In the USPTO commercial and appeal system, it raises more than twenty disputes between Lu and organizations including GSMA, TENCENT and Racfone Wireless.
Whether it’s, Deepseek options are completely limited to this turn. Under American law, the first brand user is usually considered that the legitimate owner of the brand, as Girpine pointed out, unless it could prove that the brand was registered in bad faith.
“While Dibsic can seek to obtain a coexistence agreement if they can prove that it works in various aspects of artificial intelligence from the Delson group, the American company has many advantages,” Girpin said. “They first presented, claiming the previous-2020 use for the start of Deepseek for 2023- (and) who have a direct web site that displays activities related to Amnesty International, including training events.”
Jerben said that the Delison Group may be able to claim a “reverse confusion” due to the rapid height of Dempsic to the emergence, or Soo to prevent Dibsic from continuing to use the name of its brand in the United States
“Deepseek may experience a brand problem in the United States, where there can be a former rights holder – Delson Group – and the previous rights holder may have a very good issue to violate brands.”
This will not be the first time that AI has contradicted against brands opposite winds.
Openai failed in the “GPT” brand last February after USPTO spent that the term was very year. During the past few months, Openai He was also fighting Jay Ravin technician and businessman to use “Open AI”, which Ravine claims to be part of AI’s view “open source” in 2015 – the foundation of the founding Openai.
