The Team’s Name, the Government’s Speech: “Redskins” Trademark Registrations Remain Cancelled

By Joshua Schiller and Benjamin Margulis, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP   On August 4, 2015, the Washington Redskins filed notice of their intent to appeal a district court decision from earlier this summer upholding the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (TTAB) decision to revoke the federal trademark registrations for the team’s name. While briefing on the appeal is set to conclude by the end of this year, the team’s President Bruce Allen recently announced the franchise would not c