On March 2, 2018, Counsel William Thomashower will be a featured speaker at the 15th annual Howard Law School Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ) CLE, to be held in Washington, D.C.
Thomashower will present a lecture entitled "Registering 'Disparaging' and 'Scandalous' Marks: Ethical Considerations 2018 – Do We Know It When We See It?" and will participate in a roundtable discussion of "The Aftermath of In re Tam," a June 2017 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which invalidated the portion of the Lanham Act which prohibited registration of any trademark which "may disparage" any person or institution.
To learn more about the 2018 CLE program, please click here.
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