From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 10 6:47:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F39514D8F for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 06:47:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA12515; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 01:16:58 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991110094617.19469@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:46:17 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Jamie Ostrowski , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: legality issue Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <004601a989ef$5941c3a0$543ac089@oj010000> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <004601a989ef$5941c3a0$543ac089@oj010000>; from Jamie Ostrowski on Fri, Jul 25, 1980 at 06:16:29AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Friday, 25 July 1980 at 6:16:29 -0700, Jamie Ostrowski wrote: > > I have a question regarding the use of the word Unix. I recently > started a domain called unix-laboratories.com, and am considering > using that as a name for a small business. I am curious about any > legal issues though. Is Unix a registered trademark? Where can I go > to find more information? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you, > Jamie Ostrowski Well, it has taken nearly 20 years for this message to get here. In the meantime, the name UNIX has changed owners several times. The owners have started a couple of high-profile lawsuits, so I wouldn't recommend that you use the name (or Unix, for that matter). Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message