Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 18:28:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Use of the UNIX Trademark Message-ID: <1003508889.3bd054997f004@webmail.neomedia.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0110191402290.33609-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0110191402290.33609-100000@ury.york.ac.uk>
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[ not sure -questions is best for this topic... ] Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > In fact there's a website devoted to this sort of stuff, > > http://www.bountyquest.com/ It's actually rather disgusting to look > > through this and see some of the patents that have been granted. > > I guess the best example (though a well known one) is US trademark > 75502288, the unhappy smiley, registered to despair.org. > > http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=75502288 :-( But this is not printed material. :-) Should software at large, and FreeBSD in particular, be crippled by polio^H^H^H^Hatents, Europe will happily offer asylum. :-)) -- Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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