Is Your Trademark Politically Correct and Does that Matter?
Greenspoon Marder LLP
JUNE 16, 2016
By: Sharon Urias, Esq. In 2014, the USPTO stripped the Washington Redskins of trademark protection for six of its registered trademarks as offensive and disparaging of Native Americans. Since that time, the NFL franchise has been fighting to get the USPTO’s decision reversed on appeal. Presently, the case is pending before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
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