Alumni Association: 1st Amendment Bars Trademark Case Over Use Of Name

(February 16, 2017, 7:14 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an alumni association from trademark infringement claims in connection with its use of the words “alumni association” in conjunction with the university’s name, the alumni association argues in its Jan. 30 reply brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, because it cannot identify who its members are without using the university’s name (Alumni Association of New Jersey Institute of Technology v. New Jersey Institute of Technology, No. 16-798, U.S. Sup.)....