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Federal Judge Uses Classic Sports Rant To Make His Point

Allen Iverson gets a S/O from a federal judge.

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As a threshold matter, throughout the pleadings the parties conflated the legal principles surrounding trademarks with those surrounding trademark registration. Just as Allen Iverson once reminded the media that they were wasting time at the end of the Philadelphia 76ers’ season “talking about practice” and not an actual professional basketball game, the Court is similarly compelled to highlight what is at issue in this case – trademark registration, not the trademarks themselves.

— Judge Gerald Bruce Lee, holding that the football team from Washington’s trademark must be canceled (because, you know racism is a thing), and using one of the most delightful sports rants of all time to make his point about the conflation of trademarks and trademark registration. If you can use Iverson to emphasize a point, you might as well go ahead and do it..

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