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	<title>The Legal Satyricon &#187; 2(a)</title>
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		<title>The Legal Satyricon &#187; 2(a)</title>
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		<title>Pussy TTAB upholds pussy Examiner and says that Americans are too pussified to deal with &#8220;PUSSY&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 16:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Shearer launched a new energy drink that he cheekily named PUSSY.  When he applied for trademark registration for the logo shown above, the examining attorney denied registration under Section 2(a) of the trademark act &#8212; the section that allows examining attorneys and/or their supervisors to impose their personal morality on any trademark before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randazza.wordpress.com&blog=681620&post=5936&subd=randazza&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Are You Callin&#8217; An A-Hole?</title>
		<link>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/who-are-you-callin-an-a-hole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcorandazza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh the irony meter is just off the charts with this one.  
JibJab media filed for a trademark registration for A-HOLE PATROL.  Apparently JibJab uses the term to describe its “Online social club that screens jokes submitted by users to control offensive and inappropriate content.&#8221;  From the JibJab website:
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		<title>&#8220;HEEB&#8221; is Disparaging &#8212; no Matter what you Jews Say!</title>
		<link>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/heeb-is-disparaging-no-matter-what-you-jews-say/</link>
		<comments>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/heeb-is-disparaging-no-matter-what-you-jews-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcorandazza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Welch on a recent 2(a) refusal of a trademark registration for HEEB.  The Examining Attorney determined that it was a disparaging term for Jews, and of course, it can be.  However, the applicant and applicant&#8217;s attorney happened to be Jewish, and were using the term as a term of empowerment.  Although [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randazza.wordpress.com&blog=681620&post=3736&subd=randazza&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Cocaine&#8221; Trademark for Soft Drinks Deemed &#8220;Immoral and Scandalous&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/cocaine-trademark-for-soft-drinks-deemed-immoral-and-scandalous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcorandazza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. 1052(a), bars the registration of trademarks that are deemed &#8220;immoral&#8221; or &#8220;scandalous.&#8221;  For the past few years, the USPTO has been on a Section 2(a) rampage, and this decision is the latest step in the PTO&#8217;s quest to become the commercial morality police.  See In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randazza.wordpress.com&blog=681620&post=2473&subd=randazza&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Sex Rod&#8221; is &#8220;Immoral and Scandalous&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/sex-rod-is-immoral-and-scandalous/</link>
		<comments>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/sex-rod-is-immoral-and-scandalous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcorandazza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A New Yorker, (yeah, it figures) attempted to secure a registration (on an intent to use basis) for the trademark &#8220;Sex Rod&#8221; &#8212; stylized to parody the Boston Red Sox RED SOX mark.  Given the similarity of the marks, the Boston Red Sox filed an opposition to the registration.  The Sox alleged &#8220;that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randazza.wordpress.com&blog=681620&post=2279&subd=randazza&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Yorkers in Red Sox Nation</title>
		<link>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/new-yorkers-in-red-sox-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcorandazza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when you let a New York law firm represent the Boston Red Sox.  
A Bostonian filed an Intent to Use application for the mark &#8220;RAD SEX.&#8221;  (source).  The Boston Red Sox filed an opposition  on the grounds of likelihood of confusion, false connection, disparagement of the RED [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randazza.wordpress.com&blog=681620&post=1222&subd=randazza&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No separation of church and state at the USPTO</title>
		<link>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/no-separation-of-church-and-state-at-the-uspto/</link>
		<comments>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/no-separation-of-church-and-state-at-the-uspto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcorandazza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An enterprising individual attempted to secure trademark registration for the term BONG HITS 4 JESUS.  Naturally, the USPTO rejected the application on a few grounds.  The first was that the term is &#8220;merely ornamental&#8221; &#8212; a position that I agree with.  
Here is where the USPTO gets really creepy &#8211; again!
In the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randazza.wordpress.com&blog=681620&post=997&subd=randazza&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great Fuck Mashup</title>
		<link>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/great-fuck-mashup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Scandalized?  Heh.
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		<title>There is Nothing Wrong with FUCK</title>
		<link>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/there-is-nothing-wrong-with-fuck/</link>
		<comments>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/there-is-nothing-wrong-with-fuck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcorandazza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been fighting formally for more than two years, and informally in every other blog posting, that there is nothing immoral or scandalous about the word fuck.  See, e.g, The Fuck Brief.
Well here is proof.  Watch this.  If you laugh, I win.  

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		<title>CUMBRELLA Approved for Registration</title>
		<link>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/cumbrella-approved-for-registration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcorandazza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Welch at the TTABlog has once again done me the honor of asking me to write a guest column on a recent &#8220;immoral and scandalous&#8221; trademark case.  See the post here.
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		<title>&#8220;You Cum Like a Girl&#8221; Rejected as Immoral and Scandalous</title>
		<link>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/you-cum-like-a-girl-rejected-as-immoral-and-scandalous/</link>
		<comments>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/you-cum-like-a-girl-rejected-as-immoral-and-scandalous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcorandazza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am beaming with pride that John Welch, over at the TTABlog asked me to guest blog on the TTAB&#8217;s latest affirmance of a 2(a) refusal.   My discussion of the case is here. 
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		<title>The USPTO Loves the Constitution!</title>
		<link>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2007/09/17/the-uspto-loves-the-constitution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marcorandazza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[USPTO Secretary Guitierrez seems to have a good grasp of the importance and beauty of our most cherished document, the U.S. Constitution.  Consider this recent release:
Secretary Gutierrez recently announced Constitution Day, September 17, to celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution, and to promote public understanding and appreciation for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randazza.wordpress.com&blog=681620&post=347&subd=randazza&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fuck Brief</title>
		<link>http://randazza.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/the-infamous-brief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is, the Infamous Fuck Brief.  The filings are all public record and are freely available on the USPTO website.  Nevertheless, anyone&#8217;s convenience, here they are.

The USPTO&#8217;s initial rejection of the application.

The initial appeal to the Examiner &#8211; this is the one that sparked the articles.

The USPTO&#8217;s second refusal.
The appeal to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randazza.wordpress.com&blog=681620&post=164&subd=randazza&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kink.com Appeals USPTO Refusal to Register &#8220;Immoral and Scandalous&#8221; Trademarks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orlando Weekly published an article chronicling Kink.com&#8217;s attempts to secure registration of several of its trademarks, such as fuckingmachines and whippedass.  
Trademark registration is a standard practice for any business that wants to protect its interests.  However, Kink.com and others who have attempted register trademarks that contain a &#8220;dirty word&#8221; have been told [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randazza.wordpress.com&blog=681620&post=146&subd=randazza&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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