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- From: hollaar%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Lee Hollaar)
- Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
- Date: 7 Sep 92 12:07:31 MDT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.120732.19952@hellgate.utah.edu>
- Summary: Correcting typical net misinformation
- Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
- References: <1992Sep2.220141.17026@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Sep4.234429.18294@newsgate.sps.mot.com> <Bu5DBu.IA6@rahul.net> <1859@adagio.UUCP>
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- In article <1859@adagio.UUCP> grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey) writes:
- > ... Leave
- >the name UNIX AT&T, USL or whatever they call themselves this week,
- >and refer to the operating system family as Unix. Trademarks are
- >case-sensitive.
-
- From the section on filing requirements in "Basic Facts About Trademarks" from
- the United States Patent and Trademark Office:
- "If the drawing [showing the mark to be registered] is in typewritten
- form, the mark _must_ be typed entirely in CAPITAL LETTERS. [Emphasis
- in the original.] Capital letters must be used even if the mark, as
- used, includes lower-case letters."
-
- More importantly, it is likely that confusion would result between the uses
- of UNIX and Unix, so the different capitalization would fail one of the
- fundamental tests for trademark infringement.
-