Why High Court Is Right About Offensive Trademarks

By Jennifer Ko Craft (June 28, 2017, 5:18 PM EDT) -- As an Asian-American, I have had a lot of hateful and derogatory names thrown at me throughout my life, and yet I found the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Matal v. Tam,[1] rejecting the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's ban on registering disparaging terms as unconstitutional, gratifying in many ways. But, let's start from the beginning....

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