{"id":19735,"date":"2014-06-18T11:17:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T16:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=19735"},"modified":"2014-06-18T11:17:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T16:17:27","slug":"huge-news-redskins-trademark-disallowed-by-us-patent-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/18\/huge-news-redskins-trademark-disallowed-by-us-patent-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge News: &quot;Redskins&quot; Trademark Disallowed by US Patent Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Patent Office has decided that &#8220;Redskins&#8221; is a term offensive to Native Americans and can not be trademarked.  <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2014\/06\/18\/news\/companies\/patent-office-redskins\/index.html?hpt=hp_t2\">Details here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will the team challenge this, and if so, on what basis? Free speech? Freedom to be offensive?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2014\/06\/11\/can-we-please-get-rid-of-the-rs-name\/\"> this video<\/a> had an effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Patent Office has decided that &#8220;Redskins&#8221; is a term offensive to Native Americans and can not be trademarked. Details here. Will the team challenge this, and if so, on what basis? Free speech? Freedom to be offensive? Maybe this video had an effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[61,863,3334,3335],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-58j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}