At 14:57 -0400 2002/07/22, Boris Veytsman wrote: >> Is TeX a trademark? >Yes. TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society. >METAFONT is a trademark of Addison Wesley Longman. ... >Knuth is the copyright holder. Knuth's express wish prevents AMS to >make a non-TeX called TeX. I do not know the legal delicacies, but I >think AMS is not going to violate Knuth's wish. But when Knuth dies, his copyright and wishes are transferred to the estate of the deceased, and it is up those maintaining that estate to decide what to do about it. BTW, why not calling the successor of TeX "Knuth" (or "Don"), in honor of the inventor of modern electronic typesetting? :-) Hans Aberg