Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcnc!gatech!akgua!sortac!pls From: pls@sortac.UUCP (Pat Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: VC Message-ID: <350@sortac.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 07:19:38 EST Article-I.D.: sortac.350 Posted: Wed Jan 14 07:19:38 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 16-Jan-87 01:56:20 EST References: <455@sii.UUCP> <1532@kitty.UUCP> Reply-To: pls@sortac.UUCP (Pat Sullivan) Organization: AT&T Tech-NS, Atlanta Lines: 24 >In article <455@sii.UUCP>, drd@sii.UUCP (David Dick) writes: >> 'vc' is a registered trademark of Software Innovations, Inc. for >> our UNIX(R) spreadsheet. We've been selling our spreadsheet >> under that name for 5 years now. ... In article <1532@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: > Ahem. How can you register ``vc'' as a trademark for use in the >UNIX (tm) environment when the command vc(1) - version control clearly >predates your spreadsheet program? The 3 pages for "vc(1) - version control" in my (BTL) UNIX User's Manual for Release 3.0 dated June, 1980 show it as obsolescent; the same 3 pages in my (AT&T) UNIX User's Manual for SVR2.0 dated April, 1984 show it as standard. I'm just curious (I don't want to start something that belongs in misc.legal): is the spreadsheet "vc" *registered* or simply a trademark? If it's registered, is that simply because AT&T did not choose to pursue it? ================================================================== Pat Sullivan - {akgua|ihnp4}!sortac!pls - voice 404-257-7382 disclaimer: opinions are my own, etc., etc., etc. VC is actually the trademark of a well known Southeastern Asia militia; this predates both of the above.