Raven Ziegler from Minneapolis protests the name nickname of the Washington team. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images)

For the second time, the U.S. Patent and Trademark office has declared that the Washington football team’s name is considered a derogatory term.

In January, the Patent Office rejected an application to trademark the Washington football team’s name for a brand of pork rinds, on the grounds that it contained a derogatory term. Yesterday, the Patent Office rejected another application for a trademark containing the “R” word. The application, which was for “Washington [Insert R Word] Potatoes,” was denied “because the applied-for mark includes matter which may disparage or bring into contempt or disrepute persons, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols,” the ruling states.

The Oneida Indian Nation, which launched a massive campaign last year to get the football team to change their name, praised the Patent Office for their ruling. “Once again, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office is making clear what should be obvious to everyone with a conscience — that “[R*dskins]” is not a term which anyone with common decency would use to address a Native American. Despite the team’s claim that the mascot is a term of honor, the reality is that it is a dictionary-defined slur that insults and denigrates Native Americans. The R-word has no place in modern society,” Oneida Indian Nation Representative Ray Halbritter said in a release.

“It is heartening to see this latest step in the right direction, and we hope that the Washington NFL team will heed the clear calls for change and place itself on the right side of history by changing the team’s disparaging name.” We’ll see about that, but owner Dan Snyder has made his feelings about the issue abundantly clear at this point.