8/84 UNIX---COPYRIGHT

Nippon Marantz is sending notice to AT&T and many Japanese software firms to stop using the UNIX, as it owns the copyright on it. AT&T has not responded. Nippon Marantz owns the copyright in Japan to the word "UNIX" in category 11 which covers electrical equipment. It has sent letters to Japanese computer makers to stop using the word UNIX in their ads in Japan. The company says it will file suit if ATT does not respond and promise to stop.

THE JAPAN LAWLETTER, August, 1984. By Roderick Seeman