USPTO Cancels "Redskins" Trademark Registration: What Does It Mean?
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office, by a 2-1 decision, cancelled six trademark registrations for the use of the term "REDSKINS" by the Washington Professional Football team. The cancelled registrations were issued between 1967 and 1990. The PTO majority held that "these registrations must be cancelled because they were disparaging to Native Americans at the respective times they were registered, in violation of Section 2(a) of the Trademark Act of 1946, 15 U.S.C. § 1052(a)."
USPTO Cancels "Redskins" Trademark Registration: What Does It Mean?
USPTO Cancels "Redskins" Trademark…
USPTO Cancels "Redskins" Trademark Registration: What Does It Mean?
The United States Patent and Trademark Office, by a 2-1 decision, cancelled six trademark registrations for the use of the term "REDSKINS" by the Washington Professional Football team. The cancelled registrations were issued between 1967 and 1990. The PTO majority held that "these registrations must be cancelled because they were disparaging to Native Americans at the respective times they were registered, in violation of Section 2(a) of the Trademark Act of 1946, 15 U.S.C. § 1052(a)."