I don’t usually take requests, but sometimes the popular demand is too much to ignore. I’ve been asked twice in one week about any advantages to registering on the Supplemental Register of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Often when one applies to the Principal Register of the USPTO, the examining attorney will say, in his or…
In the recent but now famous U.S. Supreme Court case of Iancu v. Brunetti, the mark in question was, as discussed at oral argument, a homonym of the past participle of a well known profanity — “F.U.C.T.” (which was purportedly meant to be pronounced by its initials). One of the niceties of both the oral argument and…