Washington Redskins Appeal TTAB Ruling

By David M. Kramer and James Stewart, of DLA Piper LLP   On Thursday, August 14, 2014, the Washington Redskins filed a much-anticipated appeal in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia of a June Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decision which resulted in cancellation of six of the team’s federal trademark registrations containing the word REDSKIN. As previously reported in Re:Marks, the TTAB issued a divided ruling which stated that the Redskin Registrations “must