A lower-level minor league baseball team says the National Park Service is trying to bully it into giving up its arrowhead logo, complaining that people might somehow not be able to tell the difference between the federal agency and a baseball club.
A U.S. Park Service Ranger, waits for Vice President Mike Pence to speak on the third day of the Republican National Convention at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. is trying to bully it into giving up its arrowhead logo, complaining that people might be unable to tell the difference between the federal agency and a baseball club.
“The Interior Department suing a family-owned minor league baseball team is the worst case of federal overreach and predatory litigation by the government I have ever seen,” Mr.“The secretary either has no idea what’s going on in her own department or is allowing the abuse to happen. Either way, not good,” he said.The team says the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has approved the arrowhead logo, which is on merchandise such as ball caps, jackets, water bottles and ice chests.
The Range Riders are part of the Pioneer League, which is affiliated with Major League Baseball. The league’s clubs are not tied to specific teams. The club picked its name and branding as an homage to the nearby park, a unifying feature in an area with deep local rivalries. Though the team plays in Kalispell, it counts on fans from other communities in the Flathead Valley, such as Whitefish, and the national park is something everyone in the region can admire. Range Riders were the park managers before the National Park Service was established.
In a letter to the team last year, a park service attorney accused the club of “false association” with the agency. The lawyer said the agency felt the company “purposely intended trade on the goodwill that therequests that the Company immediately expressly abandon the Application and remove and discontinue any and all use of the Mark and the Design on all websites that the Company owns, controls or is affiliated with,” the attorney wrote.
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