Elon Musk's SpaceX has filed a lawsuit against a Ukrainian company and wants to take its name away. We've learned the details of this astonishing story.

Starlink Ukraine has been sued by Elon Musk's Starlink.

The American company SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp.) filed a lawsuit against the Ukrainian company Starlink LLC and Ukrpatent. The case was open October 24, writes giant.

SpaceX wants to prematurely terminate the Starlink trademark.

What is known about Starlink Ukraine?

It turns out that the Ukrainian brand of the same name, Starlink, has been around for a long time. According to the trademark registry, the Ukrainian company Starlink LLC filed an application for its registration back in March 2010. The trademark was actually registered in February 2011.

Let us recall that a subsidiary of the American Starlink appeared in Ukraine in April 2022. It called Starlink Ukraine LLC. After the war, Starlink also began providing satellite internet services in Ukraine.

Sergey Dulitsky, founder of Starlink LLC. We contacted him. He said Musk's lawyers contacted him a year ago, before the war even began. They demanded he hand over the trademark to the American company Starlink. The reason: "Starlink is a world-renowned brand. So give it to him."

What brands does SpaceX have in Ukraine?

It is known that SpaceX filed for registration of the SpaceX Starlink brand in Ukraine in 2020. It received the rights to it in August of this year.

Starlink Ukraine has been sued by Elon Musk's Starlink.

This year, SpaceX also filed for registration of another trademark in Ukraine: SpaceX by Starlink.

Starlink Ukraine has been sued by Elon Musk's Starlink.

What's next for Starlink Ukraine?

Sergey Dulitsky explained that his company has been providing IT services under the StarLink brand for a very long time—over 14 years. Starlink LLC itself was registered in the registry back in 2009.

Starlink is a satellite internet service from SpaceX that operates in low-Earth orbit (LEO). Starlink was first announced in 2015 and began offering services to customers in 2020.

Sergey Dulitsky says he doesn't want to simply hand over his name to an American company. "It's not our fault we chose that name. Incidentally, it was long before Starlink itself existed," he emphasizes.

The Ukrainian company's founder admits he might negotiate with SpaceX, but only on the condition that SpaceX compensate his company for the losses associated with abandoning the brand. He emphasized that his clients know his business by this name, that his email service has operated under this domain for many years, and so on.

According to Sergei, the first hearing in the case is scheduled for December 8.

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