Case Study Of The Trademark Office V. Simon Tams

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Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the court, today we are brought here to determine whether the trademark office violated Simon Tams 1st amendment rights by denying them the use of the name “the slants” for his band. The United States constitution protects the right to freedom of expression and speech. In this case, the trademark office violates both “freedom of speech” and “freedom of expression”. The standards have to be viable to protest “free speech” and it has to be reasonable and fill the requirements to question the freedom of speech. Basically what we're saying is, by Tam not being able to use the name “slants” as their band name, it's opening up a wide spectrum for people to start alluding to heinous and uncontested objections to

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