This brief commentary succinctly analyzes the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in Matal v. Tam and Iancu v. Brunetti, and then challenges the reader to balance the importance of free speech in commerce against the value of diversity in society

The world of global trademarks can be characterized in terms of three major shifts: first, a shift from national to global branding strategies; second, a shift from national and regional systems to harmonized international regimes governing trademark law; and third, a concurrent shift from local...