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Can The NCAA Block A Vasectomy Mayhem Trademark?
Law360 (March 12, 2021, 8:25 PM EST) With the March Madness basketball tournament looming, the National Collegiate Athletic Association is making headlines over a trademark fight with a Virginia urology office that wants to use the term Vasectomy Mayhem. Yes, you read that right.
The association, known for aggressively protecting its rights to March Madness, filed a petition with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board last month seeking to cancel a trademark registration for the bizarre phrase held by Virginia Urology Center PC.
The urologists likely picked the name because of a quirky phenomenon: Research shows that vasectomy appointments tend to spike in late March during the NCAA.
Thu, Mar 11th 2021 7:38pm
Timothy Geigner
It will come as no surprise to most of our readers that the NCAA is a jealous protector of its March Madness trademark. Much like the Super Bowl, the NCAA likes to march (heh) around and try to pretend like its trademarks give it overly restrictive rights when it absolutely doesn t.
But what you may not be as familiar with is all of the ride along trademarks the NCAA has amassed relating to its men s basketball tournament. For instance, the NCAA also holds a trademark for March Mayhem and has used that in advertising partnerships in the past. For some reason, this has caused the NCAA to think that this allows it to oppose a trademark for a vasectomy clinic with an admittedly questionable marketing scheme.
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