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- From: bruner@sp15.csrd.uiuc.edu (John Bruner)
- Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
- In-Reply-To: richard@pegasus.com's message of Tue, 8 Sep 92 13:50:40 GMT
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- I don't understand the glee that some have expressed in finding a
- mention of "Berkeley UNIX" in a SVR4 manual. This has no effect upon
- the trademark status of the term "UNIX", especially because I would be
- willing to bet that the manual explicitly points out the trademark
- status of "UNIX" in at least one place.
-
- 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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