Embarked on an exciting educational experiment, we have convened americas leading scholars who have filed griefs on both sides of the case that you just heard as well as a scale that filed a brief on either party to help us understand the oral arguments that we just heard, Justice Holmes once said of the constitution it is an experiment as all of life is an experiment. Youre about to join as an educational experiment, the arguments that you just heard our technical, the kind that law professors and journalists and citizens often dont listen too closely, we just have the privilege of hearing them live so our job in the next hour is to unpack them and understand as thoughtfully and as nonpartisan as possible with the competing arguments are so that ultimately view the people of the United States and cspan watchers and friends can evaluate the arguments themselves. I want to do homework after the show and read the briefs in the case and the best way to understand what we heard was to go t
The chief justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. All persons having business before the honorable Supreme Court of the United States or admonished to get their attention. We will hear the argument this morning takes 1946 the United States patent and Trademark Office versus booking. Com. Mr. Chief justice, and may i please the court, it is a principle of the trademark law no party can continue for a generic term like wine or green. The act confirmed the generic term is never entitled to trademark protection matter how much money and effort the user has poured into promoting the merchandise and what success it has achieved in the public identification. In other words, the meetings require distinctiveness and irrelevant to the generic terms. It is undisputed that its generic for the Reservation Service responding. Respondents could entirely register and the quick filed the addition of the designation like company or ca doesnt have a taxable mark. Thats b
Good afternoon and welcome. Happy fat tuesday, thank you for spending your tuesday with us. Im the executive director of the institute for human academy, joseph capizzi. We have been here for three years. Ross has been an important member of the institute, our media fellow helps coordinate these events, the more contentious events i have been involved in. The release of the latest book, ross is one of the most important commentators, the opinion page, has written a few books at this point, they became something. I will engage ross in conversation about the book. It is an interesting book, not the sort of typical conservative harangue on the way things are but takes a nice tack to explore what is going on in our culture. Once he and i exhausted each other, we open up to the rest of you. If you have a question please raise your hand and they will approach you, dont be alarmed, make your question and ross will engage you. I implore you to phrase a question. More time ross has to respond b
Good afternoon, good evening, happy fat tuesday, thank you very muchsd for spending your evening with us. Im joe capizzi, the institute has been here for 3 years, ross has been an important member of the institute. Since our founding, hes been the media fellow and helped coordinate some of the events, some of our contentious events you have seen ross was involved with. [laughter] right. Anyway, we are super pleased that ross is joining us today i think on the day of the release of his latest book. All of you know ross as one of the most important commentators on American Culture today. He writes for the New York Times opinion page and written more than a few books at this point. They seem to all or at least a couple of them have the title how we became something, right. [laughter] right. You might want to steer clear of that or explain that at some point. Anyway, today the format is going to be that i will engage ross in a conversation about the book. I actually had the pleasure of rea
Good afternoon and good evening. Welcome. Happy fat today. Thank you all for spending your tuesday with us. Im joe, executive director and the institute here has been here for over three years now. Ow ross has been an important member of the Institute Since our founding he has been our sedia fellow and has helped coordinate some of our events and more contentious events, you may have seen ross was involved in, right . Anyway, we are super pleased ross is joining us today on the day of the release of his latest book. All of you know ross is one of most important commentators on American Culture today and he writesod for the new york time opinion page and written more than a few books at this point and they released a couple of them have the title of how we became something and you may want to steer clear of that or explain at some point but anyway, the format will be that i will engage ross in a conversation about the book and i had the pleasure of reading it and it was an interesting b