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>In article <455@sii.UUCP>, drd@sii.UUCP (David Dick) writes:
>> 'vc' is a registered trademark of Software Innovations, Inc. for
>> our UNIX(R) spreadsheet.  We've been selling our spreadsheet
>> under that name for 5 years now.  ...

In article <1532@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
>	Ahem.  How can you register ``vc'' as a trademark for use in the
>UNIX (tm) environment when the command vc(1) - version control clearly
>predates your spreadsheet program?

The 3 pages for "vc(1) - version control" in my (BTL) UNIX User's
Manual for Release 3.0 dated June, 1980 show it as obsolescent;
the same 3 pages in my (AT&T) UNIX User's Manual for SVR2.0 dated
April, 1984 show it as standard.  I'm just curious (I don't want
to start something that belongs in misc.legal): is the spreadsheet
"vc" *registered* or simply a trademark?  If it's registered, is
that simply because AT&T did not choose to pursue it?

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Pat Sullivan - {akgua|ihnp4}!sortac!pls - voice 404-257-7382
disclaimer: opinions are my own, etc., etc., etc.

VC is actually the trademark of a well known Southeastern Asia militia;
this predates both of the above.