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In article <BRUNER.92Sep8172455@sp15.csrd.uiuc.edu> bruner@sp15.csrd.uiuc.edu (John Bruner) writes:
>I don't understand the glee that some have expressed in finding a
>mention of "Berkeley UNIX" in a SVR4 manual.  This has no effect upon
>the trademark status of the term "UNIX", especially because I would be
>willing to bet that the manual explicitly points out the trademark
>status of "UNIX" in at least one place.
>
>One cannot assert that a trademark has lost its protected status just
>because it is a widely-recognized name.  "Kleenex" is almost certainly
>a more widely-recognized name than "UNIX", but it is still a
>registered trademark of Kimberly-Clark.

The same trademark can be used by more than one company and still be
protected, too.  A good example is Francis Barraud's painting "His
Master's Voice" which is used as a trade mark by RCA, RCA-Victor Records
(BMG), JVC (Victor of Japan), Deutsche Grammophon, Parlophone/EMI and
several others.  All of these firms were at one time tied to the
Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, New Jersey but a couple
world wars and depressions broke them apart.

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