The Athletics are having issues securing the trademarks associated with their planned Las Vegas relocation.<\/p>\n
In a Dec. 29 decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the A\u2019s applications for trademarking \u201cLas Vegas Athletics\u201d and \u201cVegas Athletics\u201d were denied by the federal agency tasked with registering trademarks and awarding patents.<\/p>\n
The denial was noted to be a non-final action, with the application still listed as live, with a six-month period for Major League Baseball, which handles trademarks for each team, to apply for an extension.<\/p>\n
The A\u2019s deferred comment on the matter to the MLB. An MLB source said the action is not a denial, since it\u2019s noted to be non-final and that the league has previously encountered hundreds of trademark office actions during their work with other teams. The MLB plans to respond to the USPTO within the six-month time frame to ensure the Athletics\u2019 rights are protected.<\/p>\n
The USPTO hasn\u2019t yet approved the trademark registry, noting the name Athletics wording being too vague when applied to uses such as general athletic events. The denial also notes that the team isn\u2019t yet playing in Las Vegas, which is a reason why \u201cLas Vegas\u201d and \u201cVegas\u201d associated registrations were denied.<\/p>\n
The USPTO did enter a notice of publication on Dec. 10, for the A\u2019s registration of \u201cLas Vegas A\u2019s\u201d which will officially trademark the name for the organization on Jan. 16, barring any opposition from outside parties, according to the agency\u2019s documents posted online.<\/p>\n
The As initially filed for the Las Vegas-based trademarks<\/a> on Nov. 12, 2023, three days before the team\u2019s Las Vegas relocation was unanimously approved by MLB team owners.<\/p>\n Despite already having ownership of Athletics-related names from the franchise\u2019s other previous homes over their 125-year history, including Kansas City, Philadelphia and Oakland, the USPTO said those previous registrations were not considered when rendering the recent denial.<\/p>\n The A\u2019s are also having a similar issue with their trademark filing for \u201cAthletics,\u201d the name the team is going by while they temporarily play in Sacramento during the interim years between their Oakland exit and their 2028 Las Vegas relocation. The team also has a trademark in for \u201cSacramento Athletics\u201d that was also denied, a moniker the team filed to protect the name as they play in the capital city over the next two MLB seasons.<\/p>\n The A\u2019s $2 billion Las Vegas ballpark, which is being built on the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue, is more than 10 percent complete and on track for the 2028 MLB season.<\/p>\n Contact Mick Akers at makers@reviewjournal.com<\/a> or 702-387-2920. Follow @mickakers<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletics are having issues securing the trademarks associated with their planned Las Vegas relocation. In a Dec.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,4,3226],"class_list":{"0":"post-508431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-athletics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115850014037016739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}