USPTO Affirms Copyleft-ish Hack on Trademark

Bradley M. Kuhn's Blog ( bkuhn ) 2014-06-19

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I don't often say good things about the USPTO, so I should take the opportunity: the trademark revocation hack to pressure the change of the name of the sports team called the Redskins was a legal hack in the same caliber as copyleft. Presumably Blackhorse deserves the credit for this hack, but the USPTO showed it was sound.

Kudos to the Obama USPTO for this one. Now, Obama, issue an executiveorder to stop issuing business method patents and I'll have more good things to say about the USPTO. :)

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http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/06/18/uspto-hack.html

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06/19/2014, 02:10

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06/18/2014, 19:00