JUDGMENT ISSUED.

Adjudged to be AFFIRMED. Kagan, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Thomas, Ginsburg, Alito, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, JJ., joined. Alito, J., filed a concurring opinion. Roberts, C. J., and Breyer, J., filed opinions concurring in part and dissenting in part. Sotomayor, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which Breyer, J., joined.

Argued. For petitioner: Malcolm L. Stewart, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. For respondent: John R. Sommer, Irvine, Cal.

Reply of petitioner Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office filed. (Distributed)

Record from the U.S.C.A. Federal Circuit is electronic and located on Pacer.

Brief amici curiae of The Cato Institute, et. al. filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of International Trademark Association filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of the District of Columbia filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of The Rutherford Institute filed. (Distributed)

Brief amici curiae of Professors Barton Beebe and Jeanne Fromer filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Simon Tam filed. (Distributed)

Brief amicus curiae of Pacific Legal Foundation filed. (Distributed)

Record requested from the U.S.C.A. Federal Circuit.

CIRCULATED

Brief of respondent Erik Brunetti filed.

Brief amicus curiae of New York Intellectual Property Law Association in support of neither party filed.

Brief amicus curiae of The American Intellectual Property Law Association in support of neither party filed.

Consents for amicus brief of Kurt M. Anderson not accepted for filing. (March 04, 2019 -- Document not of the type that is to be filed electronically)

Brief amicus curiae of Kurt M. Anderson filed.

Joint appendix filed.

Brief of petitioner Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office filed.

SET FOR ARGUMENT on Monday, April 15, 2019

Petition GRANTED.

Reply of petitioners Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office filed. (Distributed)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/4/2019.

Brief of respondent Erik Brunetti filed.

Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including November 8, 2018.

Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 9, 2018 to November 8, 2018, submitted to The Clerk.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 9, 2018)

Application (18A15) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until September 7, 2018.

Application (18A15) to extend further the time from August 10, 2018 to September 7, 2018, submitted to The Chief Justice.

Application (18A15) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until August 10, 2018.

Application (18A15) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 11, 2018 to August 10, 2018, submitted to The Chief Justice.

Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Petitioner, represented by Noel J. Francisco

Erik Brunetti, Respondent, represented by John R. Sommer

American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of the District of Columbia, Amicus Curiae, represented by David D. Cole

INTERNATIONAL TRADEMARK ASSOCIATION, Amicus Curiae, represented by David H. Bernstein

Kurt M. Anderson, Amicus Curiae, represented by Kurt Michael Anderson

New York Intellectual Property Law Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Michael Carl Cannata

Pacific Legal Foundation, Amicus Curiae, represented by Caleb Randall Trotter

Professors Barton Beebe and Jeanne Fromer, Amicus Curiae, represented by William McGinley Jay

Simon Tam, Amicus Curiae, represented by Stuart Banner

The American Intellectual Property Law Association, Amicus Curiae, represented by Theodore H. Davis Jr.

The Cato Institute, et. al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Ilya Shapiro

The Rutherford Institute, Amicus Curiae, represented by Megan L. Brown