Trademark Owner To High Court:  Lanham Act’s Names Clause Violates 1st Amendment

(September 7, 2023, 10:34 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A man who was denied registration of the trademark “Trump Too Small” by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) argues in the U.S. Supreme Court that the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals properly reversed the registration denial by finding a Lanham Act provision against the trademark registration of public figures’ names to be in violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as a content-based restriction on speech....