Scandalous Trademarks Update
Crystal Broughan, Intellectual Property Attorney May 2, 2019 in Intellectual Property
Tag: Scandalous Trademarks
On April 15, 2019, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Iancu v. Brunetti. Erik Brunetti’s legal team successfully argued to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that the USPTO should approve registration of the mark “Fuct” for clothing items, in part because the scandalous clause of the Lanham Act preventing him from doing so was unconstitutional. Section 2 (a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. […]
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