& Trademark Off., EXAM GUIDE 01-16: EXAMINATION FOR COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 2(A)'S
SCANDALOUSNESS AND DISPARAGEMENT PROVISIONS WHILE CONSTITUTIONALITY REMAINS IN QUESTION 1 (2016), http://www.uspto.gov/trademark/guides-and-manuals/trademark-examination-guides.
The expletives he deploys are sometimes meant for entertainment (as in his victory rally in Davao City, when the occasional 'ptang-ina' would meet the crowd's standard of approved
scandalousness and result in laughter and applause), but together with his many references to killings and to death, they help create a climate of fear, or at least a threatening air.
own discretionary judgment of
scandalousness or disparagement for that
The following statement by the head of a reliable polling company should be enough to portray the
scandalousness of the situation: "Our research allows us to make predictions about the votes to be cast into the ballot boxes.
Though Church doctrine increasingly purified Mary as the centuries passed (making her first perpetually virginal and then completely immaculate), N-Town restages and foregrounds her
scandalousness.
shared a Pulitzer Prize for its NSA and Snowden revelations.) However, as the Washington Post reviewer cautions, Greenwald has a tendency to overstate the
scandalousness of certain policies and portray the world as more black-and-white than it truly is.
(24) The critic Frank Getlein emphasized the near
scandalousness of Reva's enterprise, interpreting it as if fulfilling an "adolescent's daydream" of "showing the authentic, deliriously sexy world behind the Can-Can," and making a bad sexist joke associating the "broad strokes ...
"I don't think so, because beyond
scandalousness and fame other qualities are needed."
Even the TTAB has admitted that the
scandalousness of a mark may actually generate more interest in a product or service.
Wars, especially civil wars, have a way of making respectability scandalous and
scandalousness respectable, and that is just what the American Civil War did.