Come up with a new name for the Redskins

[FrenchSkin]

Originally Posted by mooby

Nah, he did it for the same reasons everybody else does everything: money. Not sure of the specifics but if he's a "notorious trademark squatter" he must be making good money from repeatedly doing it.

I don't really get how it's possible. Isn't there/shouldn't there be some sort of law or regulation stipulating a trademark has to be done in good faith/in fairness ? Could easily be bypassed, but those obviously unfair trademarks could be avoided IMO.

[irish]

Originally Posted by FrenchSkin

I don't really get how it's possible. Isn't there/shouldn't there be some sort of law or regulation stipulating a trademark has to be done in good faith/in fairness ? Could easily be bypassed, but those obviously unfair trademarks could be avoided IMO.

If memory serves courts have said that a cyber squatter cant just have a domain name and do nothing with it. From what the guy who holds this domain said on the Sports Junkies (a DC area sports talk show) he sells t-shirts using the domain and therefore is technically doing something with it so he doesn't have to forfeit it for lack of use.

The thing that's more puzzling is that the decision also said the Washington Football Team is too generic to be trademarked. So apparently one cant trademark something like "yellow lemon" because it's too generic.

What all this tells me is that Washington is going to move away from a generic name like WFT and actively pursue a traditional nickname like Redwolves or Monuments.