Slashdot | Universities Dispute with Red Hat over 'Fedora'

Slashdot | Universities Dispute with Red Hat over 'Fedora': "Trademarks are only valid for a limited set of things - you can't TM a word and claim domain over all uses of it.

That's right. Surely, anyone who successfully gained Access to trademark rights on common terms would have quite a Project ahead of them! They would need lawyers that Excel at trademark law to defend them. I doubt that any litigator could ever have the last Word on this issue; the Outlook would not be good. But a savvy legal Explorer could open a lot of Windows into to what goes on behind such strategies. "