Article 3SY9T For the best of reasons, The Slants won the right to trademark racially offensive slurs -- and now there's rather a lot of that

For the best of reasons, The Slants won the right to trademark racially offensive slurs -- and now there's rather a lot of that

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Cory Doctorow
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It's been a year since the Asian-American band The slants won their court case against the US Patent and Trademark office, which had refused to allow them to trademark their band-name because it was a racial slur. (more")

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