Native Americans protest before the Minnesota Vikings and Washington game in Minneapolis. (Photo by Adam Bettcher/Getty Images)

Tough break for Dan Snyder: A Federal judge in Virginia has upheld the cancellation of the Washington football team’s trademark.

In the decision, which was released this morning, U.S. District Court Judge Gerald Bruce Lee stood by the federal Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s earlier ruling to uphold the team’s trademark cancellation, the Post reports. In a 2-to-1 vote, the appeal board previously declared that the team’s name and mascot is offensive to Native Americans and is “therefore ineligible under the Lanham Act for status in the federal trademark registry.”

This comes after a decades-long battle over the offensiveness of the team’s name, the most recent iteration of which came about in 2014, after the U.S. Patent Office canceled the team’s federal trademark. Of course, that decision, which came about after a lawsuit filed by a group of Native Americans led by Amanda Blackhorse, was met with much opposition from the team. The team’s lawyers appealed the decision, filing a lawsuit against Blackhorse and the four other defendants to overturn the trademark cancellation.

Since then, the Justice Department even intervened, supporting the Patent Office’s decision to cancel the team’s trademark.

But this latest ruling, while a big legal and PR loss, isn’t the nail in the coffin for the team’s trademark. The Post says that the cancellation of the trademark “doesn’t go into effect until the [Washington football team] have exhausted the appeals process in the federal court system.” And even when/if they do—which would mean a Supreme Court ruling—they’ll still be able to seek trademark protections under state law.