On Wed, Oct 9, 2019, 9:49 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019, 9:32 PM Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
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>> > Was patent department that first used Unix on PDP-11 and roff (~1971)
>> > same department that would later handle Unix licensing two years later?
>> > (~1973)
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>> No. The former was the BTL legal and patent department. The latter was
>> at AT&T (or perhaps Western Electric)
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> I know all the later contracts were with western electric... we have them
> due to the bsd/at&t lawsuit, right?
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Ah, Berkeley's contract for Oct 73 is with Western Electric.

Warner

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