{"id":2226,"date":"2015-10-15T10:06:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T15:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.142.118\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2023-03-08T15:51:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T21:51:31","slug":"douglas-j-sorocco-dunlap-codding-shareholder-and-practice-group-leader-quoted-in-corporate-counsel-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/douglas-j-sorocco-dunlap-codding-shareholder-and-practice-group-leader-quoted-in-corporate-counsel-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas J. Sorocco, Dunlap Codding Shareholder and Practice Group Leader, Quoted in Corporate Counsel Article"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On October 13, 2015, Lisa Shuchman wrote an article for&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corpcounsel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Corporate Counsel<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;covering a 22-page legal opinion issued in September by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) regarding the use of F**K.&nbsp; The TTAB denied the appeal of a ruling denying trademark registration to an Italian apparel company for one of its marks: \u201cF**K Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/team\/douglas-sorocco\/\">Doug Sorocco<\/a>\u00a0was quoted as saying, \u201cFive to ten years ago, this would have been a slam dunk case,\u201d says Douglas Sorocco, a partner at the Intellectual Property law firm Dunlap Codding. \u201cThe panel would have ruled unanimously that this mark was scandalous or immoral and could not be registered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corpcounsel.com\/id=1202739728336\/Trademark-Appeals-Board-Opinion-Has-People-Asking-What-the-FK#ixzz3oeYqhAhG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">http:\/\/www.corpcounsel.com\/id=1202739728336\/Trademark-Appeals-Board-Opinion-Has-People-Asking-What-the-FK#ixzz3oeYqhAhG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 13, 2015, Lisa Shuchman wrote an article for&nbsp;Corporate Counsel&nbsp;covering a 22-page legal opinion issued in September by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) regarding the use of F**K.&nbsp; The TTAB denied the appeal of a ruling denying trademark registration to an Italian apparel company for one of its marks: \u201cF**K Project. Doug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[91],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5075,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions\/5075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunlapcodding.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}