timexit17 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 13, 2018 10:02 pm
wise words WM.
Funnily enough although the VCB and VOC have an understanding it was clearly because the VOC spoke to the VCB at some point t before running away with the idea and also made their logos and name measurably dissimilar.
Many, many years ago I re-started a local Vespa Ciub and mistakenly (it was a very long time ago I hasten to add) made a letter head entitling it 'Vespa Club of Great Britain' and used it to post out various stuff to clubs etc.
It was THAT long ago that it was on a dot matrix printer -we'll put it that way.
^
Hardly a fortnight passed before I had an official letter from the VCB chief Charles Caswell, who I had to phone to extricate myself from this unintentional upset.
In summary: this isn't the first time and it won't be the last that someone uses logos and names they aren't supposed to, it's how thats dealt with afterwards that will show whether the organisation(s) are likely to survive.
thanks for the insight im thinking a few organisations an businesses may be watching how this plays out so the IPO could find themselves busy witn a flood of trademark and copyright applications .
well theres only so many ways of expressing a group of lambretta or vespa for that matter owners based in the uk.
if fb BLOA were able to come to a point of changing a name they had tried to trademark im sure there should be less attachment to a logo that the didnt its likely to be a slowly shifting stance as awkward questions appear to be being asked as somebody posted on their site they joined the BLOA so why the change, bit of face saving perhaps , understandable to a degree.
"the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting "
“who wishes to fight must first count the cost”
sun tzu the art of war
