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References: Mirian Crzig Lennox's message of 25 Nov 1998 11:49:15 -0500
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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:58:38 -0500
To: netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org
From: Brad Salai <bsalai@tmonline.com>
Subject: Re: BSD Trademarks, was-Merging Net/Free/Open-BSD ..Linux

I hope this isn't a flame, but I looked around and found the following BSD
marks registered in the USPTO:


Word Mark  FREEBSD
Owner Name  (REGISTRANT) WALNUT CREEK CDROM, INCORPORATED
Owner Address  1547 Palos Verdes Mall, Suite 260 Walnut Creek CALIFORNIA
94596 CORPORATION CALIFORNIA
Goods and Services: CD ROMs featuring an archive of computer programs which
may be accessed for use;

Thats a shock, I wonder if the FreeBSD folks know about this?

Word Mark     BSD
Owner Name    (REGISTRANT) UUNET Technologies, Inc.
Owner Address 3110 Fairview Park Drive Suite 570 Falls Church VIRGINIA
22042 CORPORATION DELAWARE
Owner Name    (LAST LISTED OWNER) BERKELEY SOFTWARE DESIGN, INC.
Owner Address  7759 DELMONICO DRIVE COLORADO SPRINGS COLORADO 80919
CORPORATION DELAWARE
Goods and Services computer programs for use in the fields of business,
education, science, government, network communication and software
development, sold as an integral component of computers as well as sold
separately; and instructional manuals sold together with the aforementioned
computer programs; DATE OF FIRST USE: 1991.12.10; DATE OF FIRST USE IN
COMMERCE:
                          1991.12.10

Nothing for NetBSD, I wonder if we should register it for the foundation
before someone else does? I'd be glad to do the work for free, although
there is a filing fee.

Brad



>[ this thread should be moved to -advocacy; port-i386 bcc'd,
>netbsd-advocacy cc'd. ]
>
>Mirian Crzig Lennox <mirian@xensei.com> writes:
>> Why not just "BSD"?
>>
>> That's what I call it anyway.
>
>"BSD" is a trademark owned by Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
>
>(And, in case anyone is wondering or inclined, neither this list nor
>my mailbox is the right place to send flames about that.  8-)
>
>
>
>cgd
>--
>Chris Demetriou - cgd@netbsd.org - http://www.netbsd.org/People/Pages/cgd.html
>Disclaimer: Not speaking for NetBSD, just expressing my own opinion.


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