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The US Patent and Trademark Office has cancelled six trademarks belonging to the Washington Redskins, the NFL team thats found itself the target of increasing backlash over using a racist slur as its name. These registrations must be cancelled because they were disparaging to Native Americans at the respective times they were registered, the USPTO wrote in its decision. These trademarks largely reference broadcast rights, however, and its unclear if this will lead to a material impact on the team — generally seen as among them most profitable in the league. The record establishes that, at a minimum, approximately thirty percent of Native Americans found the term redskins used in connection with respondent’s services to be disparaging at all times including 1967, 1972, 1974, 1978, and 1990, the USPTO writes.