Patent Office cancels Redskins trademark registration, says it's disparaging

[Lief 🗽]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/us-patent-office-cancels-redskins-trademark-registration-says-name-is-disparaging/2014/06/18/e7737bb8-f6ee-11e3-8aa9-dad2ec039789_story.html

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Excellent trolling from the good people at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

[The Free North]

I for one love it when the government trolls.......such a nice break from their usual activities.

[All Along The Watchtower]

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[memphis]

What about the mascot for the Cleveland Indians? His name escspes me at the moment, but he's not exactly a model of intercultural understanding either.

[MSG]

The mascot for the Indians was Chief Wahoo. It is or has been phased out. The present mascot is Slider an amorphous dinosaur like creature and has been my whole life. The logo was still Chief Wahoo when I was young however the latest Indians logo is just a script C on blue. From a basic search only Ebay has Chief Wahoo hats. It will be interesting to see if that move is enough, though to give the Indians credit they started this process at least thirty years ago in regards to the mascot and 5-10 on the logo.

[memphis]

The mascot for the Indians was Chief Wahoo. It is or has been phased out. The present mascot is Slider an amorphous dinosaur like creature and has been my whole life. The logo was still Chief Wahoo when I was young however the latest Indians logo is just a script C on blue. From a basic search only Ebay has Chief Wahoo hats. It will be interesting to see if that move is enough, though to give the Indians credit they started this process at least thirty years ago  in regards to the mascot and 5-10 on the logo.

Shows how closely I follow baseball

[MSG]

I only know that from watching them my whole life. If it was some other team I probably wouldn't have known either. So no worries.