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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
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- In article <BRUNER.92Sep8172455@sp15.csrd.uiuc.edu> bruner@sp15.csrd.uiuc.edu (John Bruner) writes:
- >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.
-
- The "glee" comes from the appearance of endorsement of an apparent
- "common use" of the term by non-critical mention of it in an official AT&T
- document. Since it was an official document, it state a position by AT&T
- on the matter by it's reference.
-
- Unless Berkeley was licensed to use the trademark (as well as the
- 32V source product), it's likely that non-recognition of the "common use"
- status of the UNIX trademark by AT&T would not hold up.
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
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- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
- or previous employers.
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