Wired article on Damon Wayans filing for the mark NIGGA for various goods. He has several months to respond to an office action that rejects the application on Section 2(a) 'immoral or scanadalous matter' grounds (well known to those following...
Posted in The Trademark Blog on February 23, 2006 11:15 AM
TTABlog reports that a man has filed an opposition to the San Francisco Women's Motorcycle Contingent application to register the mark DYKES ON BIKES for "Education and Entertainment Services in the nature of organizing, conducting, and promoting parade contingents, community...
Posted in The Trademark Blog on February 16, 2006 01:32 PM
TARR shows that DYKES ON BIKES (filed by a lesbian biker group) has been approved for publication. Background on the issue (whether members of a group can register a 'scandalous' pejorative term that applies to that group) here....
Posted in The Trademark Blog on December 9, 2005 06:36 PM
Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act prohibits registrations of, among other things, material that brings people into contempt or disrepute. A women motorcyclist organization applied for trademark registration of DYKES ON BIKES (stating a date of first use of 1976). The examining...
Posted in The Trademark Blog on July 15, 2005 03:34 PM