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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

In honor of Harry Reid rename the team The Mob Guys.


81 posted on 06/18/2014 1:39:29 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: Slicksadick

I just did a USGov Copyright search. 126 hits on Nigg3r.
Over 600 on Nigg@.
**********************
Don’t just search it ,, report it as offensive.


82 posted on 06/18/2014 1:59:09 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: bert

“The unprecedented action of the treacherous tyrant Barack Obama will not stand.”

It will stand tall until someone with political power does something about it.

There is no rule of law in America anymore.

That is what USED TO separate the USA from fascist crapholes.

Even a POS like David Koresh deserved to stand trial for his crimes, not be executed on the spot by the ATFBI.

(I still do not believe the Davidians violated gun laws. Koresh thought he was Jesus Christ and was marrying/banging 14 year olds.)


83 posted on 06/18/2014 2:04:45 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was, as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: nonsporting

I also saluted the flag with the outstretched hand but it was palm up,not palm down.

Slightly different.

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84 posted on 06/18/2014 2:11:52 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Cheerio
In the Choctaw language, Oklahoma means Red People ... Time for Oklahoma to sh*tcan its name ... /sarc
85 posted on 06/18/2014 2:54:03 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: Reddy

Henceforth known as Nativeamericanapolis


86 posted on 06/18/2014 3:29:31 PM PDT by cyclotic (America's premier outdoor adventure association for boys-traillifeusa.com)
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To: HamiltonJay

No, they cannot. They can still be sued for infringement. Registration doesn’t create a trademark. The team still has its common law rights in its mark(s). Do not start selling Redskins shirts. Harry Reid doesn’t know the law.


87 posted on 06/18/2014 4:31:38 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: BarbM

>>Will dingy harry go after the PACKERS next?
you know, gays and all?<<

That’s for Concealed Carriers


88 posted on 06/18/2014 5:49:33 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: Cheerio; GOPsterinMA; hockeyfan44; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; sickoflibs; Bender2; NFHale; ...

Uncool. Unelected bureaucrats should not have this power.

You just know the order came from the top.


89 posted on 06/18/2014 8:15:17 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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90 posted on 06/18/2014 8:18:43 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion; Impy; sickoflibs; NFHale

How is this legal? Oh wait, we’re talking about Obama’s Amerika, where laws are really just suggestions that are randomly enforced.

Now since this Pandora’s Box has been opened as a warfare tactic, does the GOP have the balls and brains to retort against “them” using “their” tactics?

I think we know the answer to that...


91 posted on 06/19/2014 4:24:25 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA
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To: Uncle Chip

Barack Obama’s name offends me, it evokes images of what?, socialists, bigamists, scumbags. He should change it. Oh yeah, he already did. Several times. Social security number too.


92 posted on 06/19/2014 4:39:40 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; LdSentinal; GeronL; Viennacon; ...

Completely ridiculous. Even most Native Americans don’t care about this, just the perpetually offended leftists with too much time on their hands.


93 posted on 06/20/2014 3:24:17 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: Clintonfatigued

There is a nearly all Navajo HS school in Arizona that uses the name “Redskins”, the kids like it.


94 posted on 06/20/2014 11:48:07 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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