A new front has opened in the long-running battle to get the Washington Redskins football franchise to change its name. Six Native Americans are filing a joint petition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today asking for cancellation of the trademarked term “Redskins.”
“The term ‘Redskins’ is an extraordinarily insensitive and derogatory term and one that should not be granted exclusive trademark licenses by the federal government,” said Suzan Shown Harjo, president of The Morning Star Institute, a non-profit American Indian advocacy group. She added that she hopes the legal action “will convince the Washington team owners and others that disparaging terms should be consigned to museums and history books.”
Read the entire Wall Street Journal Law Blog post here.
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