Vin LoTempio Meets Plaintiff Simon Tan in Supreme Court Case on Disparaging Trademarks

This past week the Supreme Court decided a groundbreaking case concerning an Asian American rock band, the Slants. Their lawsuit has huge implications for the Washington Redskins trademark case and will set the standard for disparaging trademark viability. In 2011 the band tried to trademark their name with the United States Patent and Trademark Office […]
USPTO TTAB cancels Redskins Trademark

On Wednesday, June 18, the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) issued a ruling that canceled the federal registration of six trademarks related to the Washington Redskins of the National Football league. The petition was brought to TTAB by five Native Americans in an attempt to cancel the trademarks […]