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Eugene

(61,593 posts)
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 05:30 PM Jan 2019

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 Office’s 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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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-profanity/supreme-court-to-hear-challenge-to-ban-on-profane-trademarks-idUSKCN1OY1VB

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Supreme Court to hear challenge to ban on profane trademarks (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2019 OP
If allowed, I will immediately trademark... Yavin4 Jan 2019 #1
Dibs on ImpeachTheMotherFukkker lagomorph777 Jan 2019 #4
Please. Have they been on the internets lately? sandensea Jan 2019 #2
if trump isn't a dirty word Marthe48 Jan 2019 #3
It is. Another thing he destroyed LiberalLovinLug Jan 2019 #5
Can you imagine how Bridge players must feel ? Haggis for Breakfast Jan 2019 #7
maybe we can invent a new word as satisfying Marthe48 Jan 2019 #8
We're counting on you! LiberalLovinLug Jan 2019 #10
I think people should just spend a little time in Denmark or The Netherlands defacto7 Jan 2019 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author Julian Englis Jan 2019 #9

LiberalLovinLug

(14,154 posts)
5. It is. Another thing he destroyed
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 08:03 PM
Jan 2019

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.

Here are all the main synonyms on Thesaurus.com
None of them are as good as "trump". Even the sound of the word worked alongside its meaning. Like another word that starts with "f".


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Marthe48

(16,691 posts)
8. maybe we can invent a new word as satisfying
Sat Jan 5, 2019, 11:13 AM
Jan 2019

I just woke up, but I'll work on it
I often say puck, and it works well lol

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