This is a major threat to free speech and also to property rights.
Why is it that it took all the way to comment # 28 for the real issue to arise. This is a property rights issue.
The trademarks and symbology of the Wahington Redskins are registered in the USPTO as belonging to the owners of the Redskins organization, just as title to my home is registered in the county recorder's office where I live. If someone in the USPTO can say "not anymore", then what prevents someone in my county, or yours, from saying the same "not anymore" about our real estate?
Property rights are one thing that has set this country apart from the very beginning. In early drafts of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson had written that men were endowed with rights to "life, liberty and property." This was later revised to "pursuit of happiness" over concerns that it glorified America's "original sin" of slavery.