Researchers at Cornell and UVA dispute Red Hat's Fedora trademark. "The problem is that Red Hat's (trademark) guidelines state that if there is confusion, they will exclude you from using the name Fedora," said Carl Lagoze, a senior research associate with Cornell's Information Science department. It's kind of annoying to see Red Hat suddenly asserting ownership over a name that they knew we had prior use to. The researchers have common law rights that protect their use of the Fedora name, according to Webbink. [
InfoWorld]
