The patent office asked whether five trademarks granted to the Washington Redskins between 1967 and 1990 violated the Lanham Act, a 1946 law prohibiting trademarks that "may disparage or falsely suggest a connection with persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs".How do you determine what counts as "disparaging"?
Under the PTO's reasoning, then, granting a trademark to Warner Bros. would "falsely suggest a connection" with the author.
In 1954, and in the succeeding decades, there was little to suggest a connection with practical developments, which anyway were largely assumed to be American in origin.
This notion of "pragmatic" does suggest a connection with what is idiosyncratic to the psychology of particular language users and contexts and contrasts with projects that are regarded as providing a "syntax" or "semantics" of explanation.
As to the location of the Chapel, in the Greene Knight poem, Sir Bredbeddle's living place is described as "the castle of hutton", leading some scholars to suggest a connection with Hutton Manor House in Somerset.
Even though all of the members of his band are Asian-American, Tam was told he was being racist and violating the part of the Lanham Act that prevents people from trademarking "immoral, deceptive, or scandalous matter; or matter which may disparage or falsely suggest a connection with persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, or bring them into contempt, or disrepute".
We choose this last name because it suggests a connection with functional integrals, which are exploited in this work.
These constraints require physiological integrity (the hotspot rapidly disappears post-mortem), suggesting a connection with physiologically active processes such as OHC motility43.
She argues that the manuscript instead suggests a connection with the Scottish kingdom, with its unique illustrations more closely resembling the Kelso Charter, written at Kelso Abbey in 1159.
The earliest Athenian kings tended to have similar names suggesting a connection with the earth (chthōn; e.g., Erichthonius, Erysichthon), to have been born of the earth, raised by Athena, and to have something serpentine about them.
Martin (1993) suggests a connection with theories of obligations (cf. Section 3.3).
