"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?"
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Thursday, May 5, 2016
Redskins, and Other Troubling Trademarks; New York Times, 5/4/16
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