I'm offended.
I fully expect the patent office to act equally
Posted on 06/19/2014 4:51:22 AM PDT by IndianaJax
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins' name is ''disparaging of Native Americans'' and should be stripped of trademark protection - a decision that puts powerful new financial and political pressure on the NFL team to rename itself.
By a vote of 2-1, the agency's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board sided with five Native Americans in a dispute that has been working its way through legal channels for more than two decades.
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We need Rush, Beck, Hanity, Levin....these guys need to find out and give us the names of the people who made this decision. No way these people making these decisions should be able to do it without being named.
Since when can Commerce just make up new laws?
So now the Patent Office is the arbiter of what the government finds acceptable? And what ist verbotten!
besides, and this adds to the idiocy of it, Redskins is a compliment, it’s not disparaging
who would name a team after a lot of weaklings?
who would name a team after a lot of weaklings?
How about a new team name: The fighting Bohners?
We have to play serious. Our side has to put real pressure on these people.
yeah
the White House Sissies
I find Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben offensive. Who do I contact?
This should illustrate to everyone how deep the problem is. We are intellectually and morally divided. The people on the other side control the central government.
Here we are 20 trillion in debt with the world collapsing around us and what is Obozo concerned with? . . . a football team that has had its logo for 75 years. Someone posted yesterday that pretty soon hispanic groups are going to protest the Cleveland Browns. Names acceptable to Obozo Washington Transgendereds,
What if you find Marxism offensive?
Pray America wakes up
They should also declare the logos of the Cleveland Indians and the Atlanta Braves offensive. I find the Atlanta Brave’s chant and chop particularly offensive (of course, as a Phillies fan, I would).
This is an OBAMA DECISION!! All Federal Departments, Boards, Commissions, Agency’s and Offices are under the POS. A mere phone call (with Pen) to the right person and the POS gets the job done.
Orwell s world is alive when the PATENT office is now part of the re education process.
This crap really needs to stop.
I will NOT eat at a CRACKER BARREL. I find the term “Cracker” Offensive.
I'm offended.
I fully expect the patent office to act equally
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