Douglas J. Sorocco, Dunlap Codding Shareholder and Practice Group Leader, Quoted in Corporate Counsel Article
On October 13, 2015, Lisa Shuchman wrote an article for Corporate Counsel covering a 22-page legal opinion issued in September by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) regarding the use of F**K. The TTAB denied the appeal of a ruling denying trademark registration to an Italian apparel company for one of its marks: “F**K Project.
Doug Sorocco was quoted as saying, “Five to ten years ago, this would have been a slam dunk case,” says Douglas Sorocco, a partner at the Intellectual Property law firm Dunlap Codding. “The panel would have ruled unanimously that this mark was scandalous or immoral and could not be registered.”