Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!dave From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: UNIX is a Footnote of Bell Labs Message-ID: <3528@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 23:20:42 EST Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.3528 Posted: Tue Mar 13 23:20:42 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 23:23:09 EST References: <780@dciem.UUCP> Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 11 I don't know anything about U.S. trademark law, but I cannot believe that case makes the slightest difference to a registered trademark. The object of trademark legislation is to prevent one product from "passing off" as another; and quite clearly, a computer operating system called "unix" is indistinguishable to the public at large from a computer operating system called "UNIX". Dave Sherman Toronto -- {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!dave