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Supreme Court Battle Set Over Prohibition of Disparaging Trademarks

By Scott Hervey on April 15, 2016
Posted in Patent Law, Trademark Law

Section 2(a) of the Lanham act bars the registration of “scandalous, immoral or disparaging trademarks.” The USPTO has used this applied this provision to refuse the registration of marks such as F**K PROJECT, PORNO JESUS, ASSJACKED and NO $#!+. The USPTO also invoked this provision when it upheld an examiner’s refusal to register the mark…

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