Trade Marks and Patent Law: Is It Intuitive?

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Anne leland, who is a attorney, and she works on trade marks. She just happened to listen to one of our episodes, the episode on slurs and offensiveness. And she wrote in to tell us about some sort of interesting features of trade mark and patent law. It turns out that your the united states prohibits people from registering trade marks that consist of immoral, deceptive or scandalous matter. We picked rope by alfred hitchcock, 19 forty eight its a movie based on aa play.

Special guest Yoel Inbar (author of Hitchcock’s Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren) joins us to talk about Hitchcock’s long take masterpiece/gimmick Rope. Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb, Rope tells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their Übermensch status. Did they read Nietzsche correctly? Is conventional morality nothing but a construct to keep the inferior masses in line? Are professors accountable for what they teach? (Please God, no.) Plus, we delve deeper into Julie and Mark’s motivation, and Yoel plays a round of “Does the government deem this trademark scandalous?”

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