Daily Archives: December 23, 2015

Change in Trademark Law!

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that the name of an Asian-American band  — The Slants — is private speech and therefore protected by the First Amendment. The government, the court writes, has no business trying … Continue reading

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PTO Outage

It seems the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s Trademark Electronic Search System (“TESS”) is unavailable at this time.     …source…

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