Supreme Court to hear challenge to ban on profane trademarks
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether a federal law that blocks trademarks for brand names or logos bearing profane words or sexual imagery violates free speech rights in a case involving a clothing brand called FUCT.
The justices will hear the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offices appeal of a lower court decision that the agency should have allowed fashion designer Erik Brunetti to trademark the FUCT brand name, which sounds like, but is spelled differently than, a profanity. At issue is a provision of U.S. trademark law that lets the trademark office deny requests for trademarks on immoral and scandalous words and symbols.
Trademark registrations enable entrepreneurs and companies to protect their brands and bring lawsuits against copycat products.
The Supreme Court in 2017 unanimously struck down a similar ban on derogatory trademarks in a case involving a Asian-American dance-rock band called The Slants. That case involved a law blocking federal trademarks for messages that may disparage people, institutions, beliefs or national symbols.
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SUPREME COURT JANUARY 4, 2019 / 3:16 PM / UPDATED 27 MINUTES AGO
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Yavin4
(35,443 posts)Orange FuckHead.
lagomorph777
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(21,639 posts)Marthe48
(16,975 posts)it should be
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)I can never use that word again. Or if I do, there is forever a double connotation to it. Too bad because it was the perfect word for a lot of situations. Like ...the corruption and treasonous behaviour by Trump, trumps anything ever done by previous administrations.
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Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Marthe48
(16,975 posts)I just woke up, but I'll work on it
I often say puck, and it works well lol
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)They'll get over it.
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