“I know it when I see it.”

Federal trademark law prohibits the registration of a mark that includes “immoral, deceptive, or scandalous matter.” 15 U.S.C. § 1052(a). Today in In re Fox, the Federal Circuit affirmed a scandalous-based rejection under § 1052(a), effectively holding that one of these things is not like the other:

“Cock Sucker” is scandalous, according to the Federal Circuit,