CAFED: Who wears the semi-pants?
In Re Joanne Slokevage, 05-1389. Like most of you, I live in fear of America falling into moral decay. This case finds that some pants are not entitled registration as a trade dress mark. I don’t really know what that means because I was absent the day they taught IP, but I know that the opinion includes the following graphic of the pants.
| Countless judicial decisions and legislative enactments have relied on the ancient proposition that a governing majority’s belief that certain sexual behavior is “immoral and unacceptable” constitutes a rational basis for regulation. |
Their website says that their product is "So unique, it is patented." I forgot how I learned about this, but DoTD has some substantive commentary as does TTABlog. See the motion decision on reconsideration at the PTO here.
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