Skins ask Supreme Court to hear trademark case

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The controversy surrounding the name of the Washington Redskins could soon be coming to an end, at least from a legal standpoint.

The Redskins have asked the Supreme Court take up the team’s trademark case, according to a court document obtained by NBC-12 in Washington. The Redskins’ case dates back to June 2014 when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office canceled the team’s trademark for the name “Redskins.”

At the time, the USPTO made the ruling because they considered the team’s name to be “disparaging to …

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