WASHINGTON — Calling the team’s name “disparaging to Native Americans,” the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office cancels the Redskins trademark registration.

Federal law does not allow trademarks that may disparage groups or people.

In the decision, the patent office says, “…we decide, based on the evidence properly before us, that these registrations must be cancelled because they were disparaging to Native Americans at the respective times they were registered, in violation of Section 2(a)of the Trademark Act of 1946, 15 U.S.C.