Question: In what year was the person for whom the Linux Mark Institute administers the "Linux" trademark on behalf of born?

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Linus Torvalds: Linus Benedict Torvalds ( ; ] ; born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator, and for a long time, principal developer of the Linux kernel, which became the kernel for operating systems such as the Linux operating system, Android, and Chrome OS.  He also created the distributed revision control system Git and the diving logging and planning software Subsurface.  He was honored, along with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland "in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel".  He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award.

Persons of National Historic Significance: Persons of National Historic Significance (National Historic Persons) are people designated by the Canadian government as being nationally significant in the history of the country.  Designations are made by the Minister of the Environment on the recommendation of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.  Approximately 70 nominations are submitted to the board each year.  A person is eligible to be listed 25 years after death, but Prime Ministers may be designated any time after death.  Parks Canada administers the program, and installs and maintains the federal plaques commonly erected to commemorate each person, usually placed at a site closely associated with them.  The intent is generally to honour the person's contribution to the country but is always to educate the public about that person.

Nominative use: Nominative use, also "nominative fair use", is a legal doctrine that provides an affirmative defense to trademark infringement as enunciated by the United States Ninth Circuit, by which a person may use the trademark of another as a reference to describe the other product, or to compare it to their own.  Nominative use may be considered to be either related to, or a type of "trademark fair use" (sometimes called "classic fair use" or "statutory fair use").  All "trademark fair use" doctrines, however classified, are distinct from the fair use doctrine in copyright law.  However, the fair use of a trademark may be protected under copyright laws depending on the complexity or creativity of the mark as a design logo.

Pratt Institute School of Information: Pratt Institute School of Information (SI), previously School of Information and Library Science (SILS), administers the oldest Library and Information Science program in North America.  It was created in Brooklyn in 1890 shortly after Melvil Dewey created such a program at Columbia University in 1887.  Pratt School of Information is one of the six schools of Pratt Institute.  Based in Manhattan, the school administers a master of information and library science degree program that has been accredited by the American Library Association since the 1924/1925 academic year.

Linux Mark Institute: The Linux Mark Institute (LMI, fully "LMI Oregon, LLC") is an organization which administers the ""Linux"" trademark on behalf of Linus Torvalds for computer software which includes the Linux kernel, computer hardware utilizing Linux-based software, and for services associated with the implementation and documentation of Linux-based products.

Vibrante: Vibrante is the name of a Linux distribution created by NVIDIA and used for at least their Drive PX 2 platform series.  The name is listed as a registered trademark of NVIDIA.  First appearances of the name were seen in about the year 2010 when it labeled some rather universal multimedia engine including audio, video and 3D building display that was in tight cooperation with Audi company.  At NVidia TechDay in December 2015 the distribution was reported with version numbers 3.0 for Jetson TK1 Pro (aka.  X3) and Drive CX, and with version 4.0 for Drive CX and PX platforms.  Jetson TK1 is mentioned as running with the Linux4Tegra package instead.  Companies like Toradex have built and published e.g. sample application codes on top of it.  Abbreviations of Vibrante Linux like V3L, V3Le or V4L with the number representing the version plus terms like L4T (Linux4Tegra) and assigned to certain devices can be found in some history and release docs, e.g. for NVIDIA VisionWorks.  On top of Vibrante it is possible to run NVIDIAs VisionWorks Toolkit.  Vibrante is one of the targets that OpenCV4Tegra (OpenCV for Tegra; an OpenCV derivate with Tegra-specific optimizations) can run upon.  Further there is the NVIDIA PerfKit Package that copes with Vibrante.

Kit Cosper: Kit Cosper (born 1967) was the sixth employee at Red Hat and one of the founders of Linux Hardware Solutions (LHS) as well as a founding director of Linux International After LHS was acquired by VA Linux Cosper became Director of Miscellaneous at VA and eventually managed their Open Source advocacy group, consisting of Chris DiBona, Joseph Arruda and John Mark Walker.  During the Dot Com implosion of 2001 Cosper left VA and went on to serve as Executive Technical Advisor and interim CTO at Telkonet, a powerline networking startup in Germantown, Maryland.

BioSLAX: BioSLAX is a Live CD/Live DVD/Live USB comprising a suite of more than 300 bioinformatics tools and application suites.  It has been released by the Bioinformatics Resource Unit of the Life Sciences Institute (LSI), National University of Singapore (NUS) and is bootable from any PC that allows a CD/DVD or USB boot option and runs the compressed Slackware flavour of the Linux Operating System (OS), also known as Slax.  Slax was created by Tomáš Matějíček in the Czech republic using the Linux Live Scripts which he also developed.  The BioSLAX derivative was created by Mark De Silva, Lim Kuan Siong and Tan Tin Wee.

Trademark dilution: Trademark dilution is a trademark law concept giving the owner of a famous trademark standing to forbid others from using that mark in a way that would lessen its uniqueness.  In most cases, trademark dilution involves an unauthorized use of another's trademark on products that do not compete with, and have little connection with, those of the trademark owner.  For example, a famous trademark used by one company to refer to hair care products might be "diluted" if another company began using a similar mark to refer to breakfast cereals or spark plugs. Dilution is a basis of trademark infringement that only applies to famous marks.  With non-famous marks, the owner of the mark must show that the allegedly infringing use creates a likelihood of confusion as to the source of the product or service being identified by the allegedly infringing use.  With non-famous marks, it is highly unlikely a likelihood of confusion will be found if the products or services are in unrelated markets.  However, with famous marks, any use by another person of the mark has the potential for confusion, since a famous mark is so well known among the consuming public that people will assume affiliation with the owner of the mark regardless of the product or service being sold under the infringing use.

Implied authority: Implied Authority of Contract is a legal term.  In contract law, it is the implied ability of an individual to make a legally binding contract on behalf of an organization, by way of uniform or interaction with the public on behalf of that organization.  When a person is wearing a uniform or nametag bearing the logo or trademark of a business or organization; or if that person is functioning in an obviously authorized capacity on behalf of a business or organization, that person carries an Implied Authority of Contract.  Implied Authority is authority that is not express or written into the contract, but which the agent is assumed to have in order to transact the business of insurance for the principal.  Implied authority is incidental to express authority since not every single detail of an agent's authority can be spelled out in the written contract.

Supporting paragraphs: Linux Mark Institute Linus Torvalds
Answer: 1969