From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 19 6: 5:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pump3.york.ac.uk (pump3.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE20237B405 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 06:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (ury.york.ac.uk [144.32.108.81]) by pump3.york.ac.uk (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f9JD5qE12750; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:05:52 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9JD5qj33844; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:05:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:05:52 +0100 (BST) From: Gavin Atkinson To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Salvo Bartolotta , "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" , Subject: RE: Use of the UNIX Trademark In-Reply-To: <000601c15084$87edd360$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > .... Most likely not, but there are many many examples of piss-poor > patents that were granted by US Patent Office on totally obvious > stuff. > > In fact there's a website devoted to this sort of stuff, > http://www.bountyquest.com/ It's actually rather disgusting to look > through this and see some of the patents that have been granted. I guess the best example (though a well known one) is US trademark 75502288, the unhappy smiley, registered to despair.org. http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=75502288 Gavin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message