{"id":549,"date":"2014-06-21T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=549"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:16:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:16:25","slug":"trademark-trial-and-appeal-board-cancels-trademark-for-washington-pro-football-team-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2014\/06\/21\/trademark-trial-and-appeal-board-cancels-trademark-for-washington-pro-football-team-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Trademark Trial and Appeal Board cancels trademark for Washington pro football team name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In another case in a long-running saga, the Patent and Trademark Office cancelled the federal registration for the &#8220;Washington Redskins&#8221; on the ground that the name is disparaging in violation of Section 2(a) of the Trademark Act of 1946, 15 U.S.C. \u00a71052(a).\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/ttabvue.uspto.gov\/ttabvue\/v?pno=92046185&amp;pty=CAN&amp;eno=199\" target=\"_blank\">Blackhorse v. Pro-Football,\u00a0<\/a>Inc., U.S. P.T.O. Canc. No. 92046185 (June 18, 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/antidiscrimination-law\/\" rel=\"tag\">Antidiscrimination Law<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><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\/tribal-property\/\" rel=\"tag\">Tribal Property<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another case in a long-running saga, the Patent and Trademark Office cancelled the federal registration for the &#8220;Washington Redskins&#8221; on the ground that the name is disparaging in violation of Section 2(a) of the Trademark Act of 1946, 15 U.S.C. \u00a71052(a).\u00a0Blackhorse v. Pro-Football,\u00a0Inc., U.S. P.T.O. Canc. No. 92046185 (June 18, 2014).<\/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":[39,61,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antidiscrimination-law","category-intellectual-property","category-tribal-property"],"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\/549","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=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}