Anti-Fascist Group Uses Trademark Law to Close Nazi Merchandise Shop

Laut gegen Nazis registered European trademarks for coded neo-Nazi symbols and abbreviations, then sued to shut down Druck18, Europe's largest such shop. The retailer had used these codes to evade German bans on explicit Nazi imagery. By claiming legal ownership of the symbols themselves, the group weaponized intellectual property law—a tactic that could threaten other vendors using the same marks.