<P> The team almost immediately made contact with previous Rough Riders owner Horn Chen regarding the Rough Riders name . The ownership group were well aware of the price they would have had to pay Chen for the Rough Riders' logo and wordmarks . The Rough Riders name still retains popular currency among football fans in Ottawa . The Rough Riders played for 120 years, during which time they won the Grey Cup nine times . However, in July 2010, the ownership group announced that while Chen had sold the Rough Riders intellectual properties--including their trademarks--to his group, the Rough Riders name would likely not be returning due to the objections of the Saskatchewan Roughriders . </P> <P> On December 6, 2012, the CFL opened voting for the name of the team, up until December 16, 2012, on www.nameourteams.com . It was speculated that the team would be called the Rush, but this was later debunked . The Rush name was nonetheless included in a list of five potential names (Nationals, Voyageurs, Redblacks, and Raftsmen being the others) for the team in a focus group led by the team's owners in January 2013 . </P> <P> On May 30, 2013, the website Sportslogos.net reported that the ownership group had filed copyright protection for the nickname "Redblacks" (and its French equivalent, Rouge et Noir) with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office . On June 8, 2013, the team confirmed it would be known as the Ottawa REDBLACKS . On the same day, the Redblacks also revealed their logo, an italicized version of the block "R" that appeared on the Rough Riders' helmets from 1975 to 1991 (with artistic ink traps) surrounded by a red outline inside a black saw blade . </P> <P> Presently, the CFL does not consider the Redblacks (or for that matter, the Renegades) as the successors of the Rough Riders in the same way that it considers the three incarnations of the Alouettes to be one franchise . </P>

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