Barring Registration of Scandalous & Immoral Trademarks is Unconstitutional
Posted onSection 2(a) of the Lanham Act The Federal Circuit confirmed the inevitable ten days before Christmas by ruling that banning registration of scandalous and immoral trademarks violates the First Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that refusing to register disparaging trademarks violated the First Amendment. Both scandalous and […]