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- From: dcb@kopachuk.uucp (David Breneman)
- Subject: Re: Are you sure UNIX is a trade mark?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.200641.3173@kopachuk.uucp>
- Organization: Tacoma Screw Products, Inc.
- References: <Bu5DBu.IA6@rahul.net> <1992Sep8.135040.5243@pegasus.com> <BRUNER.92Sep8172455@sp15.csrd.uiuc.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:06:41 GMT
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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.
- >
- >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.
-
- The same trademark can be used by more than one company and still be
- protected, too. A good example is Francis Barraud's painting "His
- Master's Voice" which is used as a trade mark by RCA, RCA-Victor Records
- (BMG), JVC (Victor of Japan), Deutsche Grammophon, Parlophone/EMI and
- several others. All of these firms were at one time tied to the
- Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, New Jersey but a couple
- world wars and depressions broke them apart.
-
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