Brussels – The European Courtroom on Wednesday rejected the request of Ukrainian border guards to register a trademark “Russian warship, go fuck your self”, seeing it as a political message that’s not thought-about a industrial indication.
The phrase went viral after being shouted by a Ukrainian border guard on the small Snake Island to a ship asking him to give up, on the primary day of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022.
The Ukrainian administration hoped to register this trademark on the European degree for a variety of merchandise, in addition to for publishing, academic, leisure, and sports activities providers.
However the Mental Property Workplace opposed it, and the Ukrainians took the matter to the European Courtroom of Justice.
The phrase is a “political message” that might be “related” with “Russian aggression. (…) It should due to this fact not be perceived by the pertinent public as a sign of the industrial origin of the services it designates,” the Courtroom dominated in a judgment. (November 13, 2024)
