Government Petitions High Court In Dispute Over ‘Immoral’ Trademarks

Mealey's (September 14, 2018, 11:15 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Sept. 7 petition for certiorari, the federal government asserts that the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erroneously deemed the “immoral and scandalous marks” provision of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1052(a), (Section 2[a]), unconstitutional (Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, v. Eric Brunetti, No. 18-302, U.S. Sup.)....