Too tasteless to trademark? SCOTUS considers whether vulgar-sounding brand name is protected by First Amendment

03/23/2019 6:02 AM | Deleted user

ABA Journal

March 2019


"It seems unlikely that Brunetti conceived that he and his brand would one day be involved in a case on trademark law before the U.S. Supreme Court, but that is where he will be in April, in Iancu v. Brunetti. The justices will decide whether a provision of the federal Lanham Act that bars the registration of “immoral” or “scandalous” trademarks is facially invalid under the free speech clause of the First Amendment."



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