On March 2, Kyiv Commercial Court ruled to award Ukrainian company “????????” (Starlink in Cyrillic script) with “????????” trademark. In response, SpaceX has now lodged an appeal with Kyiv’s Northern Commercial Court of Appeal.
According to the case file, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) initially filed a lawsuit against Starlink LLC and the State Organization Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations with the Kyiv Commercial Court.
The plaintiff demanded early partial termination of the Ukrainian certificate for the Starlink trademark. However, the court dismissed the claim in full.
According to the report, the Ukrainian namesake company suffered a DDoS attack shortly afterwards.