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Redskins lose trademark, Harry Reid says team will be 'forced' to change name
Washington Examiner ^ | June 18, 2014 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 06/18/2014 10:59:40 AM PDT by Cheerio

In what some see as the first step to forcing the Washington Redskins football team to change their name, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Wednesday cancelled six federal trademarks of the team name because it's “disparaging” to Native Americans.

“Petitioners have shown by a preponderance of the evidence that a substantial composite of Native Americans found the term REDSKINS to be disparaging,” said the decision.

Fans, however, won’t see any immediate change — even if Daniel Snyder’s team eventually loses in court. That’s because all the order will do is eliminate the trademark the team has on merchandise.

The Redskins are expected to appeal.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; redskins; reid
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To: Cheerio

That decision abruptly ends the team’s freedom of expression.

What would happen if a new immigrant wanted to change his foreign sounding name (which often does happen with new immigrants) to Johnny Redskin?

Would he be denied that right, and what other names will appear on that exclusionary list?


61 posted on 06/18/2014 11:50:04 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Cheerio

Good thing our politicans have the free time to get involved in professional games.
Leaches all of them. Cut their pay and send them home.


62 posted on 06/18/2014 11:50:54 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Obama lied; our healthcare died.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Harry Rat?


63 posted on 06/18/2014 11:52:06 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: FatherofFive

What about RATSKINS?


64 posted on 06/18/2014 11:55:27 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Nowhere Man

My great-grandmother on my mother’s side was 100% Native American from Canada (she married a Québécois Canuck and they eventually settled in Watervliet, New York). That makes me 1/8 native-American, and as far as I know, qualified to have an opinion on the subject, so here it is: I don’t give a flying, smelly Obama what they call their team.


65 posted on 06/18/2014 11:57:24 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: nonsporting

Liberals especially want to have a strong leader who will tell them what to do, right down to the size of soft drink they may choose. Liberals want government to have a monopoly on force so that they can effectively compel others to obey. Liberals today are the precise opposite of liberalism in the past - and as is usual for those who support totalitarianism, the left adopted a word that sounded nice and changed its meaning under Newspeak.


66 posted on 06/18/2014 11:57:56 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: bert

It’s a manufactured issue by Progessives/Left to exercise its will over the Nation.


67 posted on 06/18/2014 11:58:03 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Lmo56
Can we still cash these in?


68 posted on 06/18/2014 12:01:45 PM PDT by Salamander (He ain't heavy, he's my Boa.)
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To: EDINVA

“...AMA deciding that gender is imaginary, it’s a sad, sad day, indeed.”

Will dingy harry go after the PACKERS next?

you know, gays and all?


69 posted on 06/18/2014 12:06:03 PM PDT by BarbM (Portuguese Dog--Kenyan president)
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To: Cheerio

Exceedingly simple solution. Bring grievance to US Patent/Trademark office for EVERY professional sports team name. NFL,MLB,NHL, NBA...etc, will throw tons of support and money to prevent that cash cow from leaving the barn.


70 posted on 06/18/2014 12:11:15 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: 353FMG

Or, the Reidskins.


71 posted on 06/18/2014 12:19:53 PM PDT by buridan
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To: alloysteel
Comes down to “What can we steal today?”

Are you ever correct on that one - it started in earnest when clown took over GM and Chrysler and "Stole" the preferential rights of their bond holders and handed it over to his buddies in the auto unions.
72 posted on 06/18/2014 12:20:06 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Cheerio

Paleface Harry make mountain out of molehill.


73 posted on 06/18/2014 12:23:03 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: BarbM

That’s next!


74 posted on 06/18/2014 12:25:47 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: nonsporting
Here in america school children during that time would reach out their arms in a very similar way when reciting the pledge of allegiance. When Hitler became prominent, the practice stopped for obvious reasons.

In those days, the shoulder patch of the US Army 45th Infantry Division was designed to honor Native Americans from the southwest. In 1939 it underwent a revision.


Adopted 1924

Revised 1939

After the Korean War, the Division was downsized and made a unit of the Oklahoma National Guard. They adopted the Thunderbird as their insignia:


75 posted on 06/18/2014 12:43:11 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: MrB
Kinda dropping the veil, are they not?

The left is all about using force to impose their will on others.

The President is a Chicago thug who has realized that he can do as he pleases until there are 67 Republican senators.

76 posted on 06/18/2014 12:49:23 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Cheerio

CONFISCATION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY WITH NO COMPENSATION - HOW IS THAT EVEN LEGAL?

***
Welcome to the new America. The rule of law? Private property? So last century....


77 posted on 06/18/2014 12:57:54 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: plsvn

Dingy Harry....doesn’t speak Choctaw.


78 posted on 06/18/2014 1:01:34 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: IamConservative

Ha!!


79 posted on 06/18/2014 1:04:19 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: COBOL2Java

I’m part redskin...and I could care less what the half whiteskin half blackskin thinks about anything!!!


80 posted on 06/18/2014 1:25:07 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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