11-25-2014, 05:51 PM
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A Virginia federal court Tuesday declined to dismiss the Washington Redskins' lawsuit against the parties who had the team's trademark protection stripped, according to Daniel Kaplan of Sports Business Journal.
According to Kaplan, Amanda Blackhorse, one of the defendants in the lawsuit, had argued that she was no longer a party to the case, but U.S. district court Judge Gerald Bruce Lee ruled against Blackhorse, arguing that ruling in her favor would result in the loss of the Redskins' appeal rights.
In June, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office canceled six uses of ''Redskins'' trademarked from 1967 to 1990 after Blackhorse and four others led a campaign against the franchise's trademark protection. The patent office explained its ruling by saying that the Redskins name is ''disparaging of Native Americans.''
The Redskins said in August they would appeal the ruling, and Judge Lee ruled in late October that the team was allowed to sue Blackhorse and her cohorts.
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