Anti-Fascist Group Uses Trademark Law to Shut Down Nazi Shop

An anti-fascist group called Laut gegen Nazis registered European trademarks for coded symbols used by neo-Nazis to evade Germany's bans on Nazi imagery. They then used those trademark claims to force Druck18, Europe's largest Nazi merchandise shop, offline. By owning the codes legally, the group turned intellectual property rules into a tool to disrupt the shop's sales.