Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:02:10 -0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <FreeBSD-Chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BSD, BSD/OS, and BSDI are trademarks of Berkeley Software Design, Inc. Message-ID: <20000316160210.G2841@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <38D15957.56930F0C@mail.ptd.net>; from tms2@mail.ptd.net on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 04:59:51PM -0500 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> <38D15957.56930F0C@mail.ptd.net>
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On Thursday, 16 March 2000 at 16:59:51 -0500, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > 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. Right, others have told me that too. Obviously I didn't recall correctly :-) Greg -- 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-chat" in the body of the message
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