Number of Rips Given by Redskins About Trademark Ruling: Zero

The Washington Football Team has heard about the Trademark Office’s ruling Wednesday morning canceling six trademarks bearing the Redskins name, and they don’t care:

Raskopf: Today’s ruling will have no effect at all on team’s ownership of and right to use the Redskins name & logo. pic.twitter.com/LF22aDlN62

— Washington Redskins (@Redskins) June 18, 2014

A statement released by the team’s attorney boasted that the case would be overturned on appeal, as a previous decision had been:

We are confident we will prevail once again, and that the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s divided ruling will be overturned on appeal. This case is no different than an earlier case, where the Board cancelled the Redskins’ trademark registrations, and where a federal district court disagreed and reversed the Board.

As today’s dissenting opinion correctly states, “the same evidence previously found insufficient to support cancellation” here “remains insufficient” and does not support cancellation.

This ruling – which of course we will appeal – simply addresses the team’s federal trademark registrations, and the team will continue to own and be able to protect its marks without the registrations. The registrations will remain effective while the case is on appeal.

[Image via Olga Bogatyrenko / Shutterstock.com]

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