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#! rnews 1665 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!chilton!chris From: chris@vindaloo.com (Christopher Sean Hilton) Subject: Unix (tm) or Unix? Was Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Organization: Vindaloo communications Message-ID: <1995Aug19.215011.29274@vindaloo.com> References: <40q6mm$c0l@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> <DDGLEp.MoD@info.swan.ac.uk> <DDGsoo.F3D@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <4121np$ig8@sundog.tiac.net> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 95 21:50:11 GMT Lines: 30 In article <4121np$ig8@sundog.tiac.net>, Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> wrote: >richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote: >> >>If a term passes into common use, it loses its trademark status. >>Help this happen! > >I am. > Doesn't the trademark owner have some say in this. E.g. if the people that own the Registration/Trademark on Kleenex (to use the court's example) don't send you a nasty letter each time you use the term kleenex in a publication without the TM or R. Then Kleenex loses its trademark status. If on the other hand they do send you a letter then when the court fight comes up they present a stack of these letters that they've send out and the postage receipts and that's it, it stays a trademark. This is how I understand it from the "defense" AT&T put up of Unix (tm) in the eighties. I don't have one of their letters but a couple of friends do. Chris. -- -- Chris Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> -+- For PGP Key: finger chilton@mcs.net Officer: We've analyzed their attack, sir, and there is a danger. Should