Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX or Unix
Message-ID: <439@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 07:27:06 GMT
References: <7763@alice.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
Lines: 19
Summary: Trademarks don't have case

In article <7763@alice.UUCP>, Dennis Ritchie writes:
< The Chicago Style manual advocates spelling trademarks with an
< initial cap.  Common usage prefers not to spell words, except
< acronyms or other abbreviations, in all caps.  The U word is
< a trademark and it is not an acronym.
< 
< Ownership of a trademark permits the owner to keep others from
< using that mark in trade.  It doesn't generally give the owner legal
< rights over permissible English usage.

I recall reading that the U.S. Trademark Office doesn't consider
case when registering a trademark, and I think this came up with
regard to Ashton-Tate's "dBase" trademark.

Disclaimer: friedl@vsi.com != attorney

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