IPNews® – Daniel Snyder has filed a trademark application, but not one that most expected.
On July 23rd the team formerly known as the Washington Redskins filed a U.S. Trademark Application for “Washington Football Team”. The team recently announced that it would play the 2020-2021 season under a temporary name to give it time to
IPNews® – The Supreme Court of The United States has struck down a 71-year-old law banning offensive trademarks.
The decision has wide ranging implications including in an ongoing federal case concerning the trademark of the NFL team, the Washington Redskins. Justice Anthony Kennedy stated that the long standing law offends a “bedrock First Amendment principal.”
IPNews® – The Supreme Court will hear a trademark case related to the band the Slants.
The case involves whether the government should grant federal trademarks to words or phrases that can be seen as disparaging. The band claims the band name is a badge of honor and that it is fighting for its rights
IPNews® – The trademark battle over the rock band name “The Slants” may open the floodgates of “disparaging” trademarks being federally registered. An appeals court has held that not granting such trademarks federal trademark protection is a first amendment violation.
This ruling is likely to impact the Washington Redskins pending litigation in which the Redskins
IPNews® – The Washington Redskins and the NFL lost a battle in court, resulting in six of the team’s Trademark registrations being cancelled.
A district court ruled that six Redskins’ Trademark registrations are to be cancelled on the grounds that they are offensive to Native American people. While the team is still free to continue
IPNews® – The bid to change the name of the Washington Redskins football team has gained momentum after a ruling by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that the name is “disparaging.”
The ruling has stepped up financial and political pressure on the team’s owner Daniel Snyder. Supporters of the name change say that
IPNews® – Research Group Three Inc., a motorcycle products company, is challenging Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Lee Griffin III in his attempt to trademark his iconic nickname, RG3.
The conflict began after Griffin formed Thr3escompany LLC to develop RG3 branded apparel and filed for a trademark for RG3. Research Group Three opposed the application, claiming
IPNews® – A group of Native Americans are attempting to have six Washington Redskins’ trademarks cancelled, claiming that the team’s name is disparaging to Native Americans.
In a hearing in front of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board last week, a group of Native Americans argued that because the team’s