The Slants: Denouement
Victory has a hundred fathers https://t.co/G9Z7QOVH8l — Likelihood ®© Blog (@likely2confuse) June 19, 2017 Now let’s name some of them. Because while I have many... Read more
Category: Section 2(a)
This is the last SLANTS song I’ll ever sing for you
For now. It was exciting last Friday, arguing the appeal of the THE SLANTS*, at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit! A little... Read more
Friends of the court, friends of the First Amendment
The approved and publishable amicus briefs in the appeal regarding the trademark registration of THE SLANTS are trickling in. Certainly interesting to see who is... Read more
Burying 2(a) at the CIPLA
Matal v. Tam was highly influential in the subsequent Supreme Court case Iancu v. Brunetti, which also overturned the provisions of the Lanham Act prohibiting the registration of “immoral” and “scandalous” trademarks on the same grounds. Mr. Coleman will speak about both of these cases, including his experience in the Tam case, and provide his insights regarding the future of registration of these types of controversial trademarks with the USPTO. Read more
Response of Simon Shiao Tam to the Government’s Request for Certiorari in Lee v. Tam
Originally posted 2016-06-20 13:12:10. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Read more
A basket of Lee v. Tam briefs
I was going to do a post collecting all the briefs filed in the United States Supreme Court in Lee v. Tam (“THE SLANTS”), but... Read more
A different Slant
Does this story in the Northwest Asian Weekly about the trademark registration woes of a rock band called The Slants sound familiar? The Slants, whose members... Read more
Brand Me Infantile
Reuters reports that U.K. regulators have once again slapped the wrist of the French Connection clothing company for their jejune FCUK ad campaign (“French Connection... Read more
Indian givers (part 3)
Part one and part two of this three-part post were published earlier this week. When the PTO’s decision revoking the REDSKINS registrations was affirmed by... Read more
The ACLU’s strange bedfellows
Here’s some news: The American Civil Liberties Union says the Redskins are wrong, damned wrong — but they’ve got every right in the world to... Read more
Best of 2014: Redskins decision: The present judges the past
Originally posted on June 18, 2014. I’ve been writing about the dispute over the REDSKINS trademark on this blog more or less since the beginning... Read more
Hurray for Hollywood!
The official website of the thing is here. Register to attend by clicking here. I’ll be speaking about In re Tam but don’t worry, there... Read more
The return of the scandalous mark denial?
Perhaps the “immoral and scandalous” rule is nothing to sniff at, after all. The Times asks: Will the COCAINE tradememark take a powder? I don’t... Read more
Slant on The Slants
Everybody can have an IP blog. But hardly anybody, it seems, is prepared to do the work required to blog. I refer now to the... Read more