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Mr KLC
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows that a person named Philip Martin McCaulay filed a claim for Washington Red Wolves on July 8 for “Entertainment in the nature of football games.”
McCaulay also filed a trademark claim on July 7 for Washington Redtails for “Cups and mugs; Wine glasses.”
Who is he? A 2015 Washington Post story said McCaulay is a “trademark squatter, someone who registers a trademark in the hopes a company decides it wants to use that name and agrees to pay a bounty for it.”
If that’s the only stumbling block, it seemingly would open the door for Redwolves (or Redtails) to become Washington’s new nickname.