U.S. Patent And Trademark Office Cancels Redskins Trademark; Huffington Post, 6/18/14

Shandee Ashtari, Huffington Post; U.S. Patent And Trademark Office Cancels Redskins Trademark:

"The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office canceled six federal trademark registrations for the name "Washington Redskins" on Wednesday on the grounds that the football team’s name is “disparaging to Native Americans” and thus in violation of federal trademark laws banning offensive or disparaging language.

“We decide, based on the evidence properly before us, that these registrations must be cancelled because they were disparaging to Native Americans at the respective times they were registered,” the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board wrote in its opinion Wednesday.

The landmark ruling was filed on behalf of a group of Native Americans."