Source: Politico
“The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Wednesday that the slogan ‘Russian warship, go fuck yourself’ cannot be claimed by Ukraine as an EU trademark. The accidental war slogan was at the center of a heated trademark battle between Ukraine’s State Border Guard and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The phrase was first coined by a Ukrainian soldier responding to the Russian navy’s demand to surrender as it prepared to attack Snake Island in the Black Sea in the early hours of the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion in 2022. In the years since, the phrase has become a symbol of Kyiv’s resilience against Moscow. But Ukraine claimed that authorship of the phrase should belong to Kyiv, to avoid anyone else claiming the trademark and profiting off the slogan.” (11/13/24)
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-lose-fight-trademark-russian-warship-go-fuck-yourself-slogan