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Washington Redskins trademarks cancelled by Patent Office
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Another tremendous post!
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ACLU: Cancellation of Redskins Trademark Was Unconstitutional
The American Civil Liberties Union is siding with the Washington Redskins in the legal dispute over last year’s cancellation of the football team’s trademark.
In a brief filed in federal court on Thursday, the group says last year’s decision by a U.S. Patent & Trademark Office judicial panel to strip the team’s name of trademark protection violated the Constitution’s ban on suppressing speech disfavored by the government.
Pro-Football Inc., the company that owns the Redskins, filed a federal lawsuit in August challenging the trademark office’s ruling and the constitutionality of a trademark law prohibiting trademarks that “disparage…persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols.”
The trademark office held the Redskins name wasn’t worthy of federal trademark protection because it disparages Native Americans. A group of Native Americans, who want the professional football team to abandon its name, and the federal governmentare defending the law.
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2015/03/06/aclu-cancellation-of-redskins-trademark-was-unconstitutional/
ACLU siding with the "racists". Who knew!
ACLU: Cancellation of Redskins Trademark Was Unconstitutional
The American Civil Liberties Union is siding with the Washington Redskins in the legal dispute over last year’s cancellation of the football team’s trademark.
In a brief filed in federal court on Thursday, the group says last year’s decision by a U.S. Patent & Trademark Office judicial panel to strip the team’s name of trademark protection violated the Constitution’s ban on suppressing speech disfavored by the government.
Pro-Football Inc., the company that owns the Redskins, filed a federal lawsuit in August challenging the trademark office’s ruling and the constitutionality of a trademark law prohibiting trademarks that “disparage…persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols.”
The trademark office held the Redskins name wasn’t worthy of federal trademark protection because it disparages Native Americans. A group of Native Americans, who want the professional football team to abandon its name, and the federal governmentare defending the law.
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2015/03/06/aclu-cancellation-of-redskins-trademark-was-unconstitutional/
ACLU siding with the "racists". Who knew!