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Committee member says USPTO registered Trump's "Board of Peace" trademark, raising emoluments and impartiality concerns
Summary
A House committee member accused the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of filing trademarks for former President Trump's private "Board of Peace," arguing the move could signal politicization of the agency, trigger litigation and raise possible emoluments-clause issues. The committee asked Director Squires for an explanation.
A House committee member told USPTO Director Squires on the record that the agency's decision to file trademark applications for former President Trump's self-described "Board of Peace" may have politicized the office and could violate trademark law and the Constitution.
"Thank you, director Esquires, for joining us today," the committee member said, then accused the director and the president of having "injected partisan politics into the work of the PTO" and of using the agency to file applications "on behalf of Donald Trump's ... private multibillion dollar global project called the Board of Peace." The member said the USPTO "personally filed the trademark applications," allowing the agency to "stand in as a straw trademark holder."
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