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Originally posted by sgtclub
And what is the rationale for not offering protection for "offensive" marks? We protect all sorts of "offensive" material and speach.
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You'd have to ask the authors of the Lanham Act, but I'd imagine that as a matter of public policy they'd point to a distinction between restricting the government's ability to limit offensive speech versus the government offering affirmative rights to enable people to profit from it.
