Usually, the wheels of justice move slowly. Sometimes, they don’t.
Only 15 days after a hearing regarding the 2014 decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that the Washington trademarks are disparaging to Native Americans, a federal judge has agreed.
Via Ian Shapira of the Washington Post, Judge Gerald Bruce Lee affirmed the ruling that the team’s name and logos should not have federal trademark protection.
“This is a huge victory,” Jesse Witten, one of the lawyers for the parties fighting the team, told the Post. “Getting this ruling from a U.