Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@mojave.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: The "Bell" Logo Message-ID: <14949@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 26 Nov 90 02:47:28 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 20 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 845, Message 11 of 14 On Nov 25 at 11:41, TELECOM Moderator writes: > His monthly invoices even looked > *identical* to IBT's -- even with 'other charges and credits' !! His > bills did not say IBT, but they did include the old Bell System logo > of the bell inside the circle, which I guess belongs to no one now. PAT] Patrick, I believe you are mistaken. Unlike the "walking fingers" which no one ever bothered to copyright or register and as a result found itself in the public domain, the bell logo was made the collective property of the seven RBOC's in the MFJ. I believe there is at least one RBOC still actively using the logo even though most have dropped it. Southwestern Bell puts it on its telephone products and there may be an eastern RBOC that still uses it. It is not in the public domain. John Higdon (hiding out in the desert)