article_snippet.sent: Slants, who say Asian-American rock band chose Asian-American rock band name as a way to reclaim a term .
article_snippet.sent: usually considered a racial slur, cannot trademark their name .
article_snippet.sent: because their name is disparaging, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday.
article_snippet.sent: trademarks in 2010 and 2011, and was rejected both times on the . grounds the name disparaged Asians.
article_snippet.sent: the name was a healthy reappropriation of a term usually .
article_snippet.sent: considered a slur, much like the lesbian motorcycle club Dykes . on Bikes, which did get a trademark.
article_snippet.sent: evidence the term is offensive to people of Asian descent.
article_snippet.sent: trademark law's disparagement provisions, which U.S. Circuit Judge Kimberly Moore said .
article_snippet.sent: disparages Native Americans.
highlights_snippet.sent: the band say the band chose the band name as a way to reclaim the disparaging term .
  