This is Handel on the Law.

Marginal legal advice where I tell you, you have no case.

There is a fun case, and this has to do with a trademark.

Usually trademark cases are kind of boring.

I'll get phone calls, and sometimes, you know, that's a trademark case, not interested.

And trademarks are phrases, example that are unique some of them

you can say are general use describing virtually everything and the courts

will say nah that can't be trademarked. It is too generic.

There, also in Europe, if you try to trademark, there is the European Union that controls it.

So it's all the countries in Europe who belong to the EU. If there is a trademark violation,

or you're arguing that you should have a trademark, you go in front of the EU.

So this has to do with Ukraine, Ukraine's border guards and the border guard, sort of their army for the border guards.

And there, if you remember when Ukraine was first invaded by Russia, the very first part of Ukraine

that was invaded was Snake Island, this little tiny island that had several of Ukrainian border guards

guarding it.

And there was a Russian warship that pulled up and called for the surrender of these several Ukrainian border guard troops.

And the cry back, and this was done with loudspeakers, saying, Russian worship, go F yourself.

And they used the full F word.

And it, man, it exploded all over the world.

And there were T-shirts, and there were t-shirts and there were memes and what the

Ukrainian border guards did is they asked for a trademark Russian worship go

F yourself and the European Union said nah you can't trademark it because it is a political slogan.

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