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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
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Posted: Tue Mar 13 23:20:42 1984
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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
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