Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:05:52 +0100 (BST) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>, "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Use of the UNIX Trademark Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0110191402290.33609-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <000601c15084$87edd360$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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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
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