Saints won over fleur-de-lis TM dispute
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed a legal claim against the NFL’s New Orleans Saints from a man who says he is the “direct descendant of the Kings of France” over the trademark of the fleur-de-lis symbol on Monday…The Saints were granted a trademark by the US Patent and Trademark Office in 1974 to use a stylized fleur-de-lis symbol having become a professional NFL team in 1967.
