Supreme Court Ruling Allows Patent And Trademark Requests For Racial Slurs, Swastika
July 24, 2017
A group of companies and individuals are attemptingĀ to register racial slurs and offensive symbols, including the N-word and the Nazi swastika, in response to a June U.S. Supreme Court decision on trademarks.
Applicants filed nine trademark requests with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) since the June 19 decision to negate a federal law barring discriminatory trademarks. The court ruled that the law violated free speech rights in the Constitution.