covering the week's top textbooks like Linux bias the United States space force was only announced two years ago and has yet to engage in any military operations but the latest branch of the US Armed Forces already stands to lose his first battle to Netflix's space force the streaming service premiered its new comedy series space force on May 29th the show's name has no relation to the newest organization of the u.s. military which unveiled its official flag only two weeks earlier because of the common moniker though the United States Space forces first battle might be a trademark war fought in courts rather than in space attorneys for the u.s. military have done little to secure the space force name as a registered trademark Netflix however has been far more aggressive and has already locked down the rights to the name in several countries despite sharing a name both entities have plenty of room to maneuver without evoking much confusion the streaming comedy is unlikely to make as viewers think they're watching a series about an actual branch of the US military the u.s. space force meanwhile has yet to get off the ground both litoris both literally and figuratively while Netflix effort was the first to come to fruition the u.s. faced force was first announced by President Donald Trump in March 2018 the military branch was officially established as a formal organization last December Netflix meanwhile greenlit a ten episode series in January 2019 created by Greg Daniel Daniel and Steve Carrell space for stars Carell John Malkovich Ben Schwartz Dianna Silver's and tani Newsome season 1 is currently available on Netflix [Music]