U.S. Patent Office cancels trademark registrations for NFL’s Washington Redskins

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Sports Illustrated:

The United States Patent and Trademark Office canceled six federal trademark registrations for the NFL’s Washington Redskins on Wednesday, saying the nickname is “disparaging to Native Americans” and cannot be trademarked under federal law that prohibits trademark protection on offensive or disparaging language.

 

The team has been under fire for the past year, with many groups, including the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, wanting the nickname changed.

 

Last month, the team hired a lobbying firm to help with the public backlash after senators sent a letter to the National Football League saying they also wanted the name changed.

 

“We decide, based on the evidence properly before us, that these registrations must be cancelled because they were disparaging to Native Americans at the respective times they were registered,” the Trademark Trial and Appeals board wrote in its opinion.

Redskins owner Dan Snyder has repeatedly said that he will not change the nickname despite the opposition.

The Trademark Trial and Appeals Board said the “Redskins” name is the subject for cancellation for “entertainment services -namely, football exhibitions rendered in stadia and through the media of radio and television broadcasts.”

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Well, this should solve everything, then...

[Cyber_Liberty]

Well, if the Libtards are correct about the offensiveness of the name & logo, then nobody is going to counterfeit them anyway. The "problem" solves itself, right? Unless, of course, the Redskins are making money on souvenirs.

[Cyber_Liberty]

Oh, BTW, I believe this is history repeating. I think the Patent Office did this years ago, the team appealed, and won. If they have to appeal again, they can use their own example as precedent.

[Valin]

Well, if the Libtards are correct about the offensiveness of the name & logo, then nobody is going to counterfeit them anyway. The "problem" solves itself, right? Unless, of course, the Redskins are making money on souvenirs.

Smart people are as we speaking buying up everything Redskins they can beg borrow or steal.

[Valin]

The Redskins Get Their Trademark Yanked by Aggrieved White Liberals

Erick Erickson

June 18th, 2014

 

The Washington Redskins have had their trademark yanked by the US Patent and Trademark Office because white liberals who feel guilty about their privilege were offended.

 

That is the actual fact. Most American Indians . . . errrr . . . Native Americans could care less. In fact, on Indian Reservations around the country there are kids sports teams called the Redskins.

 

The logo itself had the collaboration of Indians at its conception.

 

What is really going on here is that a bunch of overeducated white guys who cry during Love Actually feel they have too much privilege and are thus guilty. So they have gone out and found things to be offended about on behalf of others less privileged than themselves.

 

(Snip)