[TUHS] UNIX System V Golf Clubs?

[Mark Seiden via TUHS]

not exactly a bootleg, given the legal scope that applies to trademarks, 

regarding the golf clubs, trademark published in 1992:
https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=74306860
is pertinent.  apparently it was challenged and abandoned within two years.

if you go to 
https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results

you can observe the approximately 5 live trademarks for UNIX, Unix, UniX, etc.
and 81 dead/cancelled/abandoned trademarks for all kinds of things.


(i recall with some amusement there was a vacuum cleaner called “VAX” in the UK.)

(and at one point on a visit to kyoto i saw a restaurant that had the bsd daemon as its logo…)


> On Feb 13, 2026, at 11:34 AM, Dan Cross via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 2:31 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org <mailto:tuhs at tuhs.org>> wrote:
>> Thought folks on list might find this amusing:
>> 
>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/177857384642
>> 
>> One of DMRs pages concerned UNIX trademarks/product names spotted out
>> there in the wild, and while many were quite interesting, I think this
>> is particularly odd because the product is not only named UNIX but
>> subtitled "System V JR".  I hardly think that is a coincidence, but
>> given these are golf clubs...I really don't know what to think.
>> 
>> Anywho, apparently "All American Golf" produced or sold UNIX System V
>> golf clubs at some point.  Probably not licensed stuff, this feels
>> similar to the photo of an "OBAMA" backpack with a miscolored Sonic the
>> Hedgehog on it.  Gotta love bootlegs.
>> 
>> Any weird oddly specific UNIX-related bootlegs in anyone's memories
>> worth sharing?
> 
> Oh that's wild.  I wonder if they were some sort of promotional swag
> kind of thing?
> 
>        - Dan C.