Iancu v. Brunetti

Iancu v. Brunetti
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 15, 2019 Decided June 24, 2019
Full case name	Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. Erik Brunetti
Docket no.	18-302
Citations	588 U.S. (more) 139 S. Ct. 2294; 204 L. Ed. 2d 714
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	In re Brunetti, 877 F.3d 1330 (Fed. Cir. 2017); cert. granted, 139 S. Ct. 782 (2019).
Holding
The Lanham Act prohibition on the registration of "immoral" or "scandalous" trademarks infringes the First Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh
Case opinions
Majority	Kagan, joined by Thomas, Ginsburg, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh
Concurrence	Alito
Concur/dissent	Roberts
Concur/dissent	Breyer
Concur/dissent	Sotomayor, joined by Breyer
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I Lanham Act

Iancu v. Brunetti, No. 18–302, 588 U.S. ___ (2019), is a Supreme Court of the United States case related to the registration of trademarks under the Lanham Act.^[1][2] It decided 6–3 that the provisions of the Lanham Act prohibiting registration of trademarks of "immoral" or "scandalous" matter is unconstitutional by permitting the United States Patent & Trademark Office to engage in viewpoint discrimination, which violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.^[3]