prohibition

Section 2(a) of the Trademark Act, 15 U.S.C. §1052(a),  is an absolute bar to federal trademark registration of immoral or scandalous matter.  The ban on scandalous and immoral trademark registrations is not new.  It first came into federal law in the Trade-Mark Act of 1905 and reaffirmed as part of §2(a) of the Act of 1946. … Read more