On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 12:32:19AM -0500, jim branagan wrote: > Isn't it a couple of centuries too late for anyone to trademark > "Fedora"? (Or "Stetson" or "Trilby"?). Only if your product is a hat. Otherwise, no. I could trademark the name "fedora" to use with my new special kite design. As long as it doesn't cause confusion with any existing trademark used of "fedora" its allowable. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.