ARE Trademark Law Alert: US Court of Appeals Finds Lanham Act Prohibition of Registration of Disparaging Trademarks to Be Unconstitutional

(December 23, 2015). On Tuesday, December 22, 2015, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its much awaited en banc decision in the In re Tam case, and found the Lanham Act’s prohibition against the registration of “disparaging” trademarks to be a violation of the US Constitution’s First Amendment. This case arose […]