From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 16 14: 0:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ptd.net (mail2.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDADE37C20A for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:00:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 10213 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2000 22:00:39 -0000 Received: from du28.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) (204.186.33.28) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 16 Mar 2000 22:00:39 -0000 Message-ID: <38D15957.56930F0C@mail.ptd.net> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:59:51 -0500 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: BSD, BSD/OS, and BSDI are trademarks of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. References: <4.2.2.20000308143045.04030e70@localhost> <4.2.2.20000308143045.04030e70@localhost> <4.2.2.20000308161012.0403adb0@localhost> <38C7D332.8760088E@dppl.com> <20000313222426.A882@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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