The Washington football team of the NFL will be making an announcement today that they will being moving on from the name “Redskins”
The new name will not be announced today but there has been a lot of speculation. Some have thought Washington Warriors, the interesting thing here, Daniel Snyder the majority owner of the Washington football organization, had purchased the rights to a Washington expansion franchise in the Arena football team (the league is now defunct). The name he was going to use if was Washington Warriors.
The domain name WashingtonWarriors.com has been registered since 1999. Coinciding with the time Snyder got the Arena franchise rights.
The domain name currently points to a Sedo page which you usually see after a domain name has been purchased there. Snyder abandoned the trademark application on Washington Warriors according to the Washington Post.
Meet Martin McCaulay
Mr McCaulay has registered several trademarks relating to the issue. He started back in 2015.
As of the posting of the FOX5 story in May 2015, McCaulay had registered for trademark protection on the following Washington-based names: Americans, Bravehearts, Federals, Forces, Founders, Gladiators, Monuments, Natives, Pandas, Pigskins, Red-Tailed Hawks, Renegades, Sharks, Veterans, and Tribe. McCaulay told FOX5 that he had spent $20,000 to secure the various trademarks.
Recently filed applications for the following trademarks: Washington Redtails (July 7 and July 5), Washington Monuments (July 6), Washington Veterans (July 6), Washington Renegades (July 6), Washington Red-Tailed Hawks (July 4), and Washington Americans (June 18).
One of the things mentioned this morning on Golic and Wingo about the situation was talk about potential hold up in getting trademark rights.
So whether the new team name will be announced next week or next month, the trademark stuff might throw a wrench into the chosen name.
Pray tell me WHY you say “TradeMark Squatting” ?. Have you evidence it is “Squatting” and not just a legitimate registration of s TM ?. It seems harsh to name someone as a squatter unless of course you have evidence.
Profootball talk called the individual a trademark squatter. I called no individual a trademark squatter, I pointed out there is trademark squatting just like domain squatting.
And if you read the articles referenced, it seems that the trademarks were procured because the gentleman said he could see the future for the Washington Football team, he certainly is not using them in commerce.
Of course it’s squatting, I realize many domain investors have their assholes pucker when they hear the word squatter but what else would you call this? The tm holder has no real business for these names.
ProfootballTalk doesn’t mention it but the “trademark squatter” has been using the names in commerce: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/washington-redskins-nfl-name-trademarks-martin-mccaulay/
http://www.washingtonamericansfootball.com/home.html
“”Whether McCaulay, or anyone else attempting something similar, would see any profit depends on “intent” to use the names””
“McCaulay was aware of this, however, so to boost his claim, he designed a website where he sells t-shirts, mugs, wine glasses and other merchandise featuring some of the names he trademarked.”
To help legitimize his trademark claims, McCaulay operates a web site, WashingtonAmericansFootball.com, that sells merchandise for several of his nonexistent football teams, including the Washington Founders, Pandas and Red-Tailed Hawks.
Even that would amount to a legally specious claim on the trademark, Gerben said.
“If I did discovery and asked what sales he had, and all he could show me was three sales a year to the same three people — buddies and his mom buying stuff — that’s not going to actually make that trademark valid or enforceable in any way,” he said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/13/trademark-rights-redskins-new-name/
When the XFL was coming up with team names, I guessed two of the 8 teams correctly, I own HoustonRoughnecks and NewYorkGuardians in King…probably a waste of money!
Redwolves
I like that name. Redwolves.com is registered for many years for an organization that deals with actual wolves.
The native Americans were heavy smokers. They proved that if there are no Europeans in Virginia, you can sit in the woods, smoke tobacco for a thousand years, and nothing will change.
The first canoes carved out of solid logs were happening in the Louisiana area, which is very close to South America, which tells you no chronic smoker would have the desire to carve a canoe out of a tree trunk, unless he had an unlimited supply of Coco leaves.
If any of their women were caught cheating on her husband, they would cut her nose off, so the rest of her life would consist of public shame and disfigurement.
For the first time in recorded history, Washington is kicking the nicotine habit.
The team should be called The Washington Kicks, because eventually everyone gets kicked out of Washington.