Intellectual Property
Dec. 18, 2017
US patent office’s denial of ‘scandalous’ trademarks ruled unconstitutional
A federal law under which attorneys at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and its appeals board could refuse to register a trademark for being “immoral or scandalous” has been declared unconstitutional by an appellate court.
A federal law under which attorneys at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and its appeals board could refuse to register a trademark for being "immoral or scandalous" has been declared unconstitutional by an appellate court.
Clothing brand owner Erik Brunetti, represented by Irvine sole practitioner John R. Sommer, appealed from a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decision affirming an examining attorney's refusal to register the m...
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