For the best of reasons, The Slants won the right to trademark racially offensive slurs -- and now there's rather a lot of that
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3SY9T)
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")