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Article #587Re: symbols
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1989 19:23
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1989 19:23
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In article 7009, Bill Eason writes: >How about if I hereby copyright the symbol '|' ? Unix (tm) users >beware! Or the symbol :-) ?(*) Granted, I'm not familiar with the GNU >license, but this whole copyright thing struck me as a little odd if >not extreme, or possibly beyond legal limits. I don't mean to start This reminds me of the rumor I that Zilog tried to trademark the capital letter Z. According to the story it was thrown out of court... "....W X Y Z (tm)"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwvax!tank!eecae!cps3xx!usenet From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: symbols Message-ID: <3475@cps3xx.UUCP> Date: 19 Jun 89 19:23:04 GMT References: <4924@m2c.M2C.ORG> <3806@mit-amt> <20772@quacky.mips.COM> <349@arc.UUCP> <7531@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <2227@ccnysci.UUCP> <4581@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> Reply-To: beyer@frith.UUCP (Don W Beyer) Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing Lines: 11