prosecutors seek to strip Mongols biker gang of trademarked logo

[turkeydance]

quote:
If there is one thing on which both sides in the case agree it is that the club’s trademarked logo — a Ghengis Khan figure in sunglasses riding a motorcycle beneath the group’s name in large block letters — is the cornerstone of the Mongols’ identity.
link:
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-mongol-trademark-20190109-story.html

 

[BatteryOaksBilly]

So what about the HA flying death skull???

 

[Slacker]

Hmm...

Now that's a Big can of worms!

So the .Gov would own the trademark.
The mongols would make a small change in the design and continue as usual...

Yea, sounds like. Gov.

 

[Geezer]

So, what good is a trademark then?

 

[NCFubar]

Following the guilty verdict, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter had jurors return to court this week to make another decision: whether the club’s insignia is linked closely enough to the crimes to warrant forcing the Mongols to forfeit the group’s trademarks to the U.S. government.

The Feds are try to take the trademarks ... plural so it’s not just the logo it would likely include the name “Mongols” also ... that sure does seem like overreach. If they didn’t like a business or company’s size, actions, ownership, etc this could set a precedent for that ... like back when they broke up Ma Bell because it was to close to a monopoly and they could have taken their logo, “Bell” name, etc.

 

[BatteryOaksBilly]

So, what good is a trademark then?

OH!!! I Likie!!!^^^^^^^^^^

 

[turkeydance]

a trademark is as good as the Federal enforcement of it.

 

[SPST]

Oh, the poor Mongols.

 

[J R Green]

At the Fed meeting, "So these people have been dealing in drugs murder theft and white slavery for decades. I've got an idea, lets go after them for copyright infringement".

 

[Geezer]

At the Fed meeting, "So these people have been dealing in drugs murder theft and white slavery for decades. I've got an idea, lets go after them for copyright infringement".

That makes it sound like the Feds had been investigating themselves.

 

[HMP]

At the Fed meeting, "So these people have been dealing in drugs murder theft and white slavery for decades. I've got an idea, lets go after them for copyright infringement".

I see what youre saying, but it could be like the Al Capone scenario - they knew he was doing all these things for years, but couldnt get hard evidence on him. So they went after what they could - taxes.

 

[BatteryOaksBilly]

The Feds once spent $13 Million dollars to try 6 HA members. All found Not Guilty. Sonny Barger's famous quote "Hell if they'd given me the $13 million I'da givem somebody to put in jail".