Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: peggy@ddsw1.mcs.com (Peggy Shambo) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Ownership of Touch-Tone Trademark Message-ID: Date: 10 Oct 89 20:53:34 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: peggy@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Peggy Shambo) Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Mundelein, IL Lines: 16 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 442, message 8 of 9 In article cantor@proxy.enet.dec. com (David A. Cantor 06-Oct-1989 1609) writes: >My most recent telephone bill from New England Telephone shows the >registered trademark symbol (a capital R in a circle) immediately >after the word Touch-Tone. There isn't anything on the bill which >indicates whose registered trademark it is, though. British Telecom bought ownership of the Touch-Tone name after AT&T gave it up with divestiture. It was up for grabs, apparently, so they registered or copyrighted or whatever it was that one does with something like that. Peg Shambo | Anybody know of any IDMS/ADSO positions in peggy@ddsw1.mcs.com | the South of England? (London, Southampton, | Portsmouth, Bournemouth would all be nice)