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Steve Baird Thinks the Washington Redskins Need a Re-Branding

Steve Baird knows a lot about the REDSKINS case. He filed the original petition for cancellation with the TTAB in 1992, and successfully convinced the Board in 1994 that the laches defense was inapplicable to a Section 2(a) disparagement claim. Steve provides some incisive commentary on this saga at the Duets Blog, in "Re-branding Madness in Washington" Overlooks Obvious: The Washington Redskins.Steve points out that in 1994 the TTAB concluded that "there exists a broader interest -- an interest beyond the personal interest being asserted by the present petitioners -- in preventing a party from receiving the benefits of registration when a trial might show that [the team's] marks hold a substantial segment of the population up to public ridicule...continue to full post

Full post as published by The TTABlog on May 22, 2009 (boomark / email).