Partner Jeffrey L. Van Hoosear was quoted in “Slants Ruling May Give Green Light to Red-Light Businesses,” an article published in Bloomberg BNA.
Excerpt: Red-light sector businesses could be the biggest beneficiaries of this week’s U.S Supreme Court ruling striking down a ban on the registration of disparaging trademarks.
“It just seems highly unlikely to me that a consumer product company or apparel or food or retail or insurance service would really want to use a mark that a segment of the population found disparaging,” Jeffrey L. Van Hoosear of Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP said.
