Amhuxj.366 net.misc utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!eagle!mhuxj!presley Thu Feb 11 07:22:33 1982 UNIX(TM) Trademark The following are excerpts from a letter from the BTL Legal and Patent Division concerning the UNIX* trademark (letter dated January 27, 1982): ---------- "UNIX continues to be our trademark. It should appear in full upper case, and its first occurrence in running text should be footnoted as below. A superscripted UNIX(TM) may be used where footnoting is not possible -- as in a title or a figure -- but the footnote is preferred. Contrary to rumor, the UNIX mark is not "registered" so we should never say that it is. If and when UNIX is registered there will be plenty of official notice, so you needn't wonder. "All the old rules continue to apply, such as: use UNIX not as a noun, but as an adjective to describe Bell System software distributed under license. Thus, UNIX system is correct, UNIX operator is incorrect; UNIX editor is correct, UNIX environment is incorrect. UNIX describes the source of the software and not its character. Therefore, UNIX C compiler is correct so long as the C compiler was written at Bell Laboratories and not somewhere else." ---------- *UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories Joe Presley BTL Murray Hill ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.