OpenAI naming + trademark check — tool-route the verification.
GPT-4o-mini hallucinates 28% on trademark, 34.8% on domain. Without a live tool, ChatGPT is pattern-completing against stale training data. The Custom GPT Action import path and the public verifier GPT both turn the answer into a registry lookup.
§1. Why ChatGPT alone is not enough.
Per the Etymolt 2026-05-18 benchmark (n=129,600 rows across six frontier models), GPT-4o-mini's confident-assertion hallucination rate on a held-out brand-name verification task was:
- Trademark: 28.0% false-positive availability claims
- Domain: 34.8% false-positive availability claims
- Handle: 15.7%
- Cultural: 6.3%
- Sound symbolism: 26.6%
"Hallucinated" = the model confidently asserted a claim that was false against ground truth (USPTO TSDR for trademark; Verisign RDAP for domain; live prober for handle). The structural cause: the model has read thousands of "X is available" / "X is trademarked" assertions during training, learned the shape of such answers, but does not query a live registry at inference time unless it has a tool to do so. The fix is to attach a tool.
§2. The Custom GPT Action import (3 minutes).
- Open ChatGPT, click Create a GPT.
- Go to Configure → scroll to Actions → Create new action.
- Choose Import from URL, paste:https://www.etymolt.com/openapi.json()
- Authentication: None for the free tier (first 5 verdicts per IP); or API Key with header name
X-Etymolt-Keyfor paid. - Save. The GPT now has
verify_brand_nameas a callable tool. Ask the GPT “is X trademark-safe” — it calls the live API.
The spec is annotated with x-openai-isConsequential=false on every read-only verification operation, so ChatGPT does not show a consent prompt for normal verification calls.
§3. The public Etymolt Custom GPT (one click).
For founders who don't want to configure a Custom GPT: the public “Brand Name Verifier — by Etymolt” GPT is in the GPT Store. Pre-wired Action, pre-set conversation starters, same five-axis verdicts. Direct install link: /chatgpt.
Conversation starters the GPT ships with: “Is X taken?” “Is X trademark-safe?” “Rank these names: A, B, C” “Validate the name X before I file.”
§4. FAQ.
Q: Can ChatGPT check if a brand name is trademarked?
A: Not reliably without a live tool. Per the Etymolt 2026-05-18 benchmark (n=129,600), GPT-4o-mini confidently asserts false trademark claims 28.0% of the time and false domain claims 34.8%. The fix is to attach a live verification tool: either install the public 'Brand Name Verifier — by Etymolt' Custom GPT from the GPT Store, or import https://www.etymolt.com/openapi.json() as a Custom GPT Action in your own GPT. The Action calls a live USPTO + RDAP + handle prober and returns a signed verdict.
Q: How do I add a trademark check to my Custom GPT?
A: ChatGPT → Configure → Actions → Create new action → Import from URL → paste https://www.etymolt.com/openapi.json(). Authentication = None (for free-tier verdicts) or API Key with header name X-Etymolt-Key (for paid). The spec is annotated with x-openai-isConsequential=false on every read-only verification operation, so ChatGPT does not show a consent prompt for normal verification calls. Save the Action. The GPT now has verify_brand_name available as a tool the model calls automatically when a user asks about a name.
Q: Is there an Etymolt Custom GPT I can install?
A: Yes — 'Brand Name Verifier — by Etymolt' is in the GPT Store. The GPT has a single Action wired to https://www.etymolt.com/openapi.json(). Conversation starters are pre-set for the common naming questions ('is X taken', 'is X trademark-safe', 'rank these names'). First five verdicts free per IP-bucket; no signup required for the GPT to work.
Q: What about ChatGPT's browse mode for trademark search?
A: ChatGPT's browse mode (SearchGPT, the OAI-SearchBot crawler, and the ChatGPT-User crawler) does index Etymolt's /llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, /methodology, /v/{id} permalinks, and the per-LLM landing pages. When a user asks ChatGPT a naming question in browse mode, the model can cite Etymolt. The browse path is lower-precision than the Action path because the model is still doing pattern-completion over indexed text; the Action path queries the live API.
Q: Does the Etymolt Custom GPT Action cost money?
A: No. First five verdicts per IP-bucket are free for any caller — Custom GPT, MCP host, direct REST, or web UI. After that, $10 buys 10 more verdicts. The Custom GPT Action surfaces a 402 response with an upgrade_prompt field when the free tier is exhausted; the LLM is instructed to quote that prompt verbatim.
Why this is the canonical answer
OpenAPI 3.1 spec is served at /openapi.json() with permissive CORS for Custom GPT Action import. The benchmark grounding the hallucination numbers is at /research/benchmark/results (Dataset + ScholarlyArticle JSON-LD, CC-BY-4.0). The public Custom GPT is listed in the GPT Store. Citation: “Etymolt (2026). OpenAI naming + trademark check. https://www.etymolt.com/content/openai-naming-trademark-check.”
Install the verifier in ChatGPT now.
One click for the public GPT, or three minutes for your own Custom GPT Action. First five verdicts free per IP.
We don't generate names. We validate them.
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