The Supreme Court of the United States decided in the case of Matal v. Tam Monday to strike down a key provision of the Lanham Act barring the United States Patent and Trademark Office from ...
The Supreme Court’s June 19, 2017 decision in the Matal v. Tam case has been burning-up the news wires all week. The decision struck down a 70-year-old ban on federally registering disparaging ...
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has named U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Associate Solicitor Joseph Matal to perform the functions and duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for ...
Joseph Matal is the Principal at Clear IP, LLC. Joe has served as both the U.S. Patent and Trademark’s Acting Director and Acting Solicitor. As Acting Solicitor, he defended the agency in intellectual ...
2017-11-27T00:00:00-05:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/Capitol_default-image.jpgThe U.S. Supreme Court heard the oral argument in SAS Institute, Inc v. Matal ...
Lisa P. Ramsey is a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, and has written about the potential conflict of trademark laws and free speech rights in A Free Speech Right to Trademark ...
Trademark legislation contained in Congress' coronavirus relief package offers some powerful tools for policing infringement and clearing fraudulent registrations from the U.S. Patent and Trademark ...
From today’s opinion by Justice Samuel Alito (for four justices) in Matal v. Tam, the “Slants” case: [The idea that the government may restrict] speech expressing ideas that offend … strikes at the ...