IP: OtherUnix

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

 From ·  Dennis Ritchie
·       Bell Labs, Rm 2C-517
600 Mountain Ave.
Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974-0636, USA
·       dmr@bell-labs.com
·       +1 908-582-3770 (office), +1 908-582-5857 (fax)

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>Unless you are as powerful as Disney, Coca-Cola, or the Olympic Committee, 
>worldwide and universal trademarks don't exist; the same name can often be 
>used in trade for completely different things. Details depend on the 
>country, the category of goods offered, and of course the tenacity and 
>wealth of the trademark holder. I recall, evidently correctly, that Unix 
>Pacific, the organization created to distribute and support AT&T (later 
>USL) Unix systems in the Asia/Pacific area had to 
><http://www.japanlaw.com/lawletter/aug84/dca.htm>step carefully around 
>trademark issues with Marantz in Japan.
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>UNIX® was registered by Bell Laboratories as a trademark for computer 
>operating systems. Today this mark is owned by 
><http://www.opennc.org/trademarks.htm>Open Group, who are happy to tell 
>you about how they would like it to be used.
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>I decided to gather whatever not-our-Unix items I could; here is the 
>current harvest. Other sightings and scans gratefully accepted.
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>When you look up the four letters in the search engines of the 
><http://www.uspto.gov>US Patent and Trademark Office, you find many 
>products that use the name in some way. Many clearly refer to the OS, but 
>others seem independent. For example, to clip one out, we find



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