Angela Kalsi, an Intellectual Property Officer with Greensfelder, was recently interviewed in an article from Westlaw regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's apparent preference to uphold the Lanham Act provision requiring a person's consent for the use of their name in a trademark, as demonstrated in the case of Vidal v. Elster. The T-shirt maker, Steve Elster, sought federal registration for the trademark "Trump too small," which mocked Donald Trump. Kalsi noted the Supreme Court's oral arguments "suggested a willingness on the part of the justices to depart from their recent trend of striking down trademark prohibitions as violating the First Amendment."

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