Red Hat Founder Offers Help in Apple vs.Tiger Lawsuit

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 3, 2005 @09:12AM from the fun-with-trademark-law dept.

Art Vanderlay writes "Robert F. Young, a founder of Linux distributor Red Hat and now owner of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Canadian football team, has offered Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs a quick way out of a lawsuit by TigerDirect over the latest version of Tiger. According to the Globe and Mail, Mr. Young has offered to license the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' historical use of the word Tiger to Apple free of charge. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have been around since 1869. '136 years ago we were called The Tigers,' Mr. Young said. 'If anyone owns the exclusive rights to the word tiger with that much history and tradition, it's gotta be us.'"

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Codswallop? Who talks like that? by Wdomburg · 2005-05-03 09:26 · Score: 1, Troll

"This lawsuit is a load of codswallop," said Mr. Young. "Nobody and no company should have the exclusive use of the word 'tiger.'"

A company should however have the exclusive use of, say, the word 'fedora'.

Frankly, even though Tiger has always struck me as a vaguely sleazy company, they do have something of a point.