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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 go, that's a trademark case, not interested.

And trademarks are phrases, for 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

to generic but they're 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 uh there was a russian warship that pulled up and called for the surrender of these several

ukrainian border guard troops and the cry, and this was done with loudspeakers saying,

Russian warship, go F yourself.

And they use the full F word.

And it, man, it exploded all over the world. And there were t-shirts and there were

memes. And what the Ukrainian border guards did is they asked for a trademark. Russian

warship, go F yourself. And the European Union said, no, you can't trademark it because it is a political

slogan and you cannot trademark political slogan.

The general court of the European Union said the phrase quickly became a symbol of Ukraine's fight against Russian

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