Showing posts with label whether to permit or prohibit registration of some trademarks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label whether to permit or prohibit registration of some trademarks. Show all posts

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Redskins, and Other Troubling Trademarks; New York Times, 5/4/16

Room for Debate, New York Times; Redskins, and Other Troubling Trademarks:
"The Supreme Court may soon take up two cases in which the government does not want to register trademarks it considers disparaging — for the Washington Redskins football team and an Asian-American band called The Slants. The major federal law on trademarks lets the government deny registration to trademarks that are “immoral, deceptive, or scandalous” or that “disparage.”
Is it a denial of free speech for the government to prohibit registration for such trademarks?"