From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 19 9:28:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A48937B401 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from httpd@localhost) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f9JGS9711559; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 18:28:09 +0200 (CEST) To: Gavin Atkinson Subject: RE: Use of the UNIX Trademark Message-ID: <1003508889.3bd054997f004@webmail.neomedia.it> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 18:28:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.4-cvs X-WebMail-Company: Neomedia s.a.s. X-Originating-IP: 62.98.163.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ not sure -questions is best for this topic... ] Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > 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 :-( But this is not printed material. :-) Should software at large, and FreeBSD in particular, be crippled by polio^H^H^H^Hatents, Europe will happily offer asylum. :-)) -- Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message