BELL Laboratories
Currently, The Open Group owns the "Unix" trademark. No, Unix branded operating systems are proprietary and copyrighted. They are not free or open systems software. From its start until 1993, Unix distributions included all their source code. Programmers have made many free and open Unix-like operating systems, including Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Dragonfly BSD, Mach, OpenSolaris, etc.
James A. Wahl of Minneapolis now owns the trademark.
Unix is unique
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It depends on who owns the trademark (you or someone else), the nature of the copyrighted work, and how you're using the trademark in the work.
It's a publicly traded corperation that owns its own trademark.
Seasons Lost is a metal band from South Florida and they own the trademark to that name.
Nobody owns the copyright of a single word. Perhaps you mean trademark.
Michael Tabor and Susan Magnier own the Rip Van Winkle trademark.
In a recent court case it was decided that Novell owns the right to the source code.
QNX is a shortened version of "QUNIX", or "Quick UNIX." It was shortened to QNX to avoid trademark disputes.