U.S. Patent Office cancels “Redskins” trademark

The United States Patent and Trademarks Office has canceled the Washington Redskins’ federal trademarks, ruling that they are “disparaging to Native Americans.” Five Native Americans petitioned the office to cancel six trademarks filed between 1967 and 1990. The office said in a ruling: “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, in violation of Section 2(a) of the Trademark […]

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