national flag trademark issue - "It's our tricolor!" "No, ours!"

The flags of Romainia and Chad are the same - a tricolor of blue, yellow, and red. Apparently Chad is unhappy because they had it first. WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization and a branch of the UN, is looking into it. Here's a BBC article about it. What a strange world we live in.

Via The Trademark Blog.