Vulgar Clothing Trademark Deserves Legal Protection, Court Rules
- Designer’s bid to protect name was spurned by trademark agency
- Supreme Court in June said disparaging terms can be protected
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A U.S. appeals court ruled that “FUCT” can be trademarked, saying federal reviewers were wrong to deny that protection over the term’s vulgarity.
Following a recent Supreme Court ruling that trademark protection can be granted to disparaging marks, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Friday that immoral and scandalous ones can be trademarked too.