Tuesday, December 16, 2008

SLURISPRUDENCE: Jewish hipster magazine Heeb suffered a setback at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week, with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board affirming the office's argument that the name can be refused registration for being "disparaging." Those hoping for coherence in this jurisprudence, with its mixed results (DYKES ON BIKES, not disparaging; ethnic slur for African-Americans, disparaging; WASHINGTON REDSKINS, still up in the air and substantive issue not decided) will have to continue to wait.

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