Nobody touch the Fighting Whities.
Posted on 01/17/2017 12:03:52 PM PST by TBP
The case concerns the name of an Asian-American rock band: The Slants. And surely Taft never read a friend-of-the-court brief as amusing as one filed in this case. It is titled “Brief of the Cato Institute and a Basket of Deplorable People and Organizations.”
The US Patent and Trademark Office is empowered, by the so-called “disparagement clause” of a 1946 law, to protect American sensitivities by denying trademark protection to “immoral, deceptive or scandalous” trademarks. These have included those that a substantial portion of a particular group perceive as disparaging that group — an ethnic, religious, national or other cohort.
The PTO has canceled the trademark registrations of entities named Mormon Whiskey, Abort the Republicans, Democrats Shouldn’t Breed, Marriage Is For Fags and many more.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Did they have any such trouble with the Butthole Surfers? How about Meat Beat Manifesto?
What about Jack Mormon Coffee?
“The PTO has canceled the trademark registrations of entities named Mormon Whiskey,...”
Mormon Whiskey is a way cool name for a product!
Simple solution, just change the name to The Slopes.
surprised a Black hip-hop group hasn’t tried to trademark “Killer Ni—ers”
Well, there was NWA...
Well, there is NWA (which has a trademark.) It stands for N——rs Wit Attitude.
Isn’t a slant the same thing as a slope? I mean aren’t they both inclined planes?
“The PTO, which has denied trademark protection for The Slants, has given it to a band named N.W.A. which stands for [a version of the N-word] Wit Attitudes.”
The article is criticizing the regulation of speech,but regulates itself be using the term “N-word” instead of the actual word.
Cowards !
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Well, there is NWA (which has a trademark.) It stands for N——rs Wit Attitude.
I forgot about them. Are they still alive or did someone cap them?
There was a band of fags called “Pansy Division”.
Isn’t a slant the same thing as a slope? I mean aren’t they both inclined planes?
there is an alternate name “Inclined Celestials”.
Nobody touch the Fighting Whities.
ha!
(and I had to read to the 12th paragraph to find out what the supposed problem was... ha!)
all slopes are slants, but not all slants are slopes
I heard the band has a backup name, The Rice Grinders.
You cant trademark something that exists in nature.
I remember a black punk rock group from Los Angeles, back in the early nineties, who went by the name, "The N----rs".
Tried to find a picture of them online, but no luck.
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