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- From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
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- References: <BRUNER.92Sep8172455@sp15.csrd.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 02:11:38 GMT
- Organization: Crynwr Software
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- In article <BRUNER.92Sep8172455@sp15.csrd.uiuc.edu> bruner@sp15.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
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- One cannot assert that a trademark has lost its protected status just
- because it is a widely-recognized name. "Kleenex" is almost certainly
- a more widely-recognized name than "UNIX", but it is still a
- registered trademark of Kimberly-Clark.
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- Yes, but if you'll notice, it's always "Kleenex brand facial
- tissues", and "Band-Aid brand adhesive bandages" and "Scotch brand
- adhesive tape".
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- Please perform the exercise of completing the following phrase: "Unix brand ..."
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- I suspect that most people who know that Unix is spelled Unix complete
- it as "Unix brand Unix", which means that Unix is not a trademark.
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- IANAL.
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- -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker!
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