Thunderpussy™
2020-04-06 18:28:12.785735+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
After a long legal struggle, Seattle band Thunderpussy is granted a U.S. trademark
Kerr filed an appeal that was placed in suspended animation as the USPTO waited for the Supreme Court to decide two cases about other trademarks that had been rejected for violating the Lanham Act: one brought by an all-Asian band named The Slants, the other from a clothing company whose name is an acronym for the phrase Friends U Can’t Trust.
The Lanham Act is a broad federal law governing trademarks, and specifically prohibits ones deemed “disparaging,” “immoral” and “scandalous.”