( August 29, 2025, 11:18 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A split panel in the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rejected an artist and designer’s constitutional arguments against the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (TTAB’s) decision to deny his trademark applications for a vulgar word, but the panel still vacated the TTAB’s decision for lack of specificity, saying the TTAB’s “reasoning sounds in fact very much as though it has taken an ‘I know it when I see it’ approach to failure-to-function refusals.”...