IYO filed a trademark infringement lawsuit [PDF] against OpenAI and Jony Ive’s company earlier this month, alleging the defendants deliberately adopted a confusingly similar name for competing products. The lawsuit surfaced after the Microsoft-backed startup quietly pulled promotional materials about its $6.5 acquisition billion deal with Ive’s firm.
Case file: https://business.cch.com/ipld/IYOIOProdsComp20250609.pdf
I guess everyone can trademark 1, 2, or 3 letter names now.
Let me try:
There, they are now my Intellectual Property