Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:59:51 -0500 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: FreeBSD Chat <FreeBSD-Chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BSD, BSD/OS, and BSDI are trademarks of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Message-ID: <38D15957.56930F0C@mail.ptd.net> References: <4.2.2.20000308143045.04030e70@localhost> <4.2.2.20000308143045.04030e70@localhost> <4.2.2.20000308161012.0403adb0@localhost> <v04220807b4ec8ee2e8b5@[195.238.27.128]> <38C7D332.8760088E@dppl.com> <20000313222426.A882@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Thursday, 9 March 2000 at 11:37:06 -0500, Yarema wrote: > > Brad Knowles wrote: > >> > >> So, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc... are perfectly safe. > >> > > > > According to the above, yes. They were all given permission by BSDI > > to use BSD in their names. And that includes FreeBSD. > > IIRC, these names predate BSDI's registration of the trademark. > According to the trademark database at http://www.uspto.gov/, the BSD mark was filed on 02/27/1991, and registered on 10/12/1993, and first used on 1991.12.10. If I understand the search results correctly, UUNET initially registered the mark, but BSDI owns it now. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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