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    The document is an article from the Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review that was written by Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons from the University of Toledo College of Law. The article discusses how section 2(A) of trademark law, which prohibits registering scandalous, immoral, and disparaging marks, may be affected after the Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which established a right to privacy and struck down laws banning homosexual conduct. Over over 20 pages, the author analyzes the legal implications and potential challenges to section 2(A) based on the reasoning in Lawrence v. Texas.

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    Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review

    Volume 9 | Issue 2 Article 2

    Semiotics of the Scandalous and the Immoral and


    the Disparaging: Section 2(A) Trademark Law after
    Lawrence v. Texas
    Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons
    University of Toledo College of Law, lgibbon@utnet.utoledo.edu

    Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/iplr


    Part of the Intellectual Property Commons

    Repository Citation
    Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons, Semiotics of the Scandalous and the Immoral and the Disparaging: Section 2(A) Trademark Law after Lawrence
    v. Texas, 9 Intellectual Property L. Rev. 188 (2005).
    Available at: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/iplr/vol9/iss2/2

    This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Marquette Law Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in
    Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review by an authorized administrator of Marquette Law Scholarly Commons. For more information, please
    contact megan.obrien@marquette.edu.
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