Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!blenko From: blenko@rochester.UUCP (Tom Blenko) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: AT&T and the 3B*2 Message-ID: <7327@rochester.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Jun-84 17:03:38 EDT Article-I.D.: rochester.7327 Posted: Sat Jun 9 17:03:38 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Jun-84 07:01:48 EDT References: <785@pyuxa.UUCP Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 14 I might point out that the person who wants to turn the trademark UNIX into a generic term is on verrrry thin ice. There have been numerous cases of companies protecting their trademarks via the courts. To even suggest that people begin using the name as a generic term could get that person hauled into court in very short order. I would suggest that the person retract their suggestion before someone in the Legal Department sees the posting and decides to make a case out of it. You can only lose this one. T. C. Wheeler Bullshit. You want to render legal opinions, get yourself a license.