{"id":523,"date":"2015-07-08T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=523"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:16:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:16:23","slug":"federal-district-court-orders-cancellation-of-r-skins-trademark-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2015\/07\/08\/federal-district-court-orders-cancellation-of-r-skins-trademark-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal District Court orders cancellation of R-skins trademark registration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A federal court has ordered cancellation of the R-skins trademark registration on the grounds that it \u201cmay disparage a substantial composite of Native Americans and bring them into contempt or disrepute\u201d in violation of \u00a72(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. \u00a71052(1), at the time of their registrations.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/turtletalk.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/161-dct-order.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\">Pro-Football, Inc. v. Blackhorse<\/a>\u00a0(E.D. Va. 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/intellectual-property\/\" rel=\"tag\">Intellectual Property<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/trademarks\/\" rel=\"tag\">Trademarks<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court has ordered cancellation of the R-skins trademark registration on the grounds that it \u201cmay disparage a substantial composite of Native Americans and bring them into contempt or disrepute\u201d in violation of \u00a72(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. \u00a71052(1), at the time of their registrations.\u00a0Pro-Football, Inc. v. Blackhorse\u00a0(E.D. Va. 2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","category-trademarks"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}