"Since Cornell/UoV had never taken any positive step to protect the use
of the Federo name until after RedHat filed for the trademark
registration, I doubt they will get anything better than such a current
use right, even if an opposition is filed." should be --Since
Cornell/UoV had never taken
Filing an "intent-to-use" trademark registration is a common practice to
smoke out potential "prior users" before committing to the use of a
tradename. Whether Cornell/UoV have any prior user right is to be
determined by the Patent and Trademark Office, or, if things get ugly,
by the Court of A
You have to the burden of prove in disputing a trade name and quiet
frankly I don't see anywhere where Cornell used the Fedora mark in trade
before May 2003. But I could be wrong, I'm only using the internet.
Private usage does not count.
Tom
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 21:27, Ho'ala Greevy wrote:
> Warren & fellow Fedorians,
>
> just read this off slashdot:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/20/1722215
>
>
> any updates you can glean for us?
>
> thx,
> Ho'ala
Cornell/UoV is telling only one side of the story, which is a half-tru
Warren & fellow Fedorians,
just read this off slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/20/1722215
any updates you can glean for us?
thx,
Ho'ala
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