On Wed, Oct 9, 2019, 9:32 PM Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> 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)

No. The former was the BTL legal and patent department. The latter was
at AT&T (or perhaps Western Electric)

I know all the later contracts were with western electric... we have them due to the bsd/at&t lawsuit, right?