(November 17, 2016, 3:16 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Citing the bar under the Lanham Act’s 15 U.S. Code Section 1052(a) of the registration of trademarks that “disparage” people, Michelle K. Lee, undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, argues in an opening brief filed Nov. 9 to the U.S. Supreme Court that there is a difference between a rule that restricts speech and one that refuses to endorse and promote it (Michelle K. Lee, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office v. Simon Shiao Tam, No. 15-1293, U.S. Sup.)....