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By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Football League's Washington Redskins failed to convince a U.S. judge to reinstate six trademark registrations canceled last year for being offensive to Native Americans. A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, said on Wednesday that he agreed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that the trademarks might disparage Native Americans and that the law allowing for cancellation did not violate free speech rights of the U.S. Constitution. The Redskins had filed a lawsuit last August against five Native Americans who had convinced the trademark agency to void the registrations in June 2014.
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