Records published by the Intellectual Property Office yesterday show Sports Direct own quite a lot of trademarks, including:
Rangers
Scope of trademark: organisation of sporting activities.
This property has not been licenced to the football club, or joint ventures like Rangers Retail Ltd. Sports Direct own the rights to call a football team Rangers.
Rangers (again)
Scope: from clothing to trinkets and everything in between.
Owned by Sports Direct, licenced to Rangers Retail Ltd
Glasgow Rangers Football Club
Scope: clothes trinkets, etc.
Owned by Sports Direct, licenced to Rangers Retail Ltd
RFC, Broxi Bear, The Gers, Follow Follow, Ibrox, Rangers News, Rangers Travel and all the crests, badges and logos are all owned by Sports Direct and licenced to Rangers Retail Ltd, which is 76% owned by the Sports Direct group.
So if the club want to call themselves Rangers, or Glasgow Rangers, they need to cut a deal with Mike Ashley. The most humiliating aspect of the whole thing is that the new board appeared to know nothing about this until the Intellectual Property Office published the details yesterday. The lack of due diligence is breathtaking.
The only things Ashley seems to have ignored is that pejorative nickname they complain about so much, and the phrase Murray Park, although he has security over the training ground of that name.
We warned them repeatedly. Ashley was in control and had the opportunity to ensure he got what he wanted before the EGM. One of the richest men in Europe, he is a formidable opponent and known to be utterly ruthless.
You can’t bully him. Better to recognise this reality and accept your subservient future than create a scenario where even another liquidation event would not free the ‘Rangers’ football brand from the ironclad yolk of a man you’ve made your enemy.
What have the lemmings done to themselves? We were told Mike Ashley was a business man and he would acquiesce as this was just business. In the history of business miscalculations this is up there with the guy at Pye who rejected The Beatles.
It’s all their own work, they can’t blame the SFA, SPL, SFL, Celtic, Her Majesty’s Revenue’, the BBC or Craig Whyte. A recovery which would have been difficult enough is now completely and predictably wrecked.
Fancy a trip to Dublin for the Ireland-Scotland game in June? There’s a bus leaving Glasgow with Ireland and Scotland (but all Celtic) fans. Two nights in a Dublin hotel, travel and match ticket among the Ireland fans for £200. Let me know if you’re interested, celticquicknews@gmail.com
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Did I tell ye All I’m going to a wedding in Dunblane tomorrow ?
So Congrats to Lisa and Ross,
being married in St Margaret’s RC church Raploch
Then onto Dunblane Hydro for reception
Being told it’ll be busy there, with some celebs staying in the hotel, so tell me what CQN’rs are staying there :-)
(I know you are my lurking bridesmaid daughter )
Hail Hail
TBJ…
Sometimes I feel guilty about ripping the p**h out of the huns….it lasts a millisecond :))))
And another thing
That Celtic Way will be some site, as it continually improves
Big Billy, and a new CQN memorial stone
Brilliant :-)
sipsini …. why stars in p**h … I can see if you were ripping the p**s out them, but p**h?!
or are you, actually, sean connery, and that is how you say p**s, in which case I get it.
mishmoneypennyCSC
That’s just typical of PL
tbj takes the time to get a memorial of our departed friends and he decides to get a statue of Big Billy
Cowiebhoy
I heard that hotel has links to the sfa ;)
cowiebhoy….
I saw it on the news earlier that cowiebhoy was making an appearance:))
Enjoy your day mate.
BT
Big billy is greatest living Tim
Our memorial is to our dearly departed ;)
Tbj v Pl … No contest
TBJ
You win every time bud. 8))
I was waiting on others to bite mate 8))
Mike
Seriously .. In Glasgow we talk Pish .. Well I don’t but we use the noun Pish rather than piss .. Cos .. Cos ..
Cos .. Hmmm … Just cos
mike in toronto…
They stars are for disasters :)))
Catch a beer when you make it over. HH…and the HH is for Hail Hail…:))
BT
With tohg and the CQN giants beside me at the corner .. The sharp suited man would have a view from the Windae
Btw .. Whatever happened to the poster of that name
Sandman
18:32 on
10 April, 2015
At least they mentioned it, even if they were talking p–h. Not a tweet from BBC about it.
HAPPY HOOOOOOPY BIRTHDAY
to PADDYBHOY1888!!!!!!
1958,Eh? I thought from yer moniker you were a wee bit older…
Have a good ‘un,bud.
OOHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhh
BT what you been saying about EK ?
ps Told you before my Gran is from miners row
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPY BIRTHDAY
PADDYBHOY1888
TbJ
We know the truth buddy
JC2
EK bhoys are easy wound up, they are Glasgow overspill who think they are snobs
Castlemilk bhoys with delusions 8))
Just back from Reading,meeting RWE and family,along with some of Tony’s friends from his youth.
Tree planted in Tony’s honour at his old school. Fantastic day,though bittersweet,with wonderful people.
Thanks,mate. I really appreciated your invitation and your indulgence.
HH,and
R I P Tony.
Paddybboy1888
Happy birthday mo chara
Btw… As in disasters I meant, as in their team.
Not in any other way. Timeout.
BMCUW and RWE
Thoughts and prayers
TIMJIM
Welcome to the clique of people who have had a cracking post ignored.
We’re all in it,btw!!!
BT
EK bhoy all my life nearly 50 years
older siblings born in Hamilton
So Hamilton overspill : O)
Blantyre is a area of Hamilton isnt it ?
: O )
Jim Tim
Most of my posts are ignored .. I’m way too integligend for the dummies on this site ;)
Paddybhoy1888
Very Hoooooopy birthday – don’t try blowing out all the candles in one go :-)
Hail Hail
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
19:10 on
10 April, 2015
Is it me or JimTim you are talking to????
TBJ & Sipsini
ACGR was scouting the hotel for me the other week, never left his report on here
He did manage to leave one on Australia though :-)
Thinking about Australia
I see that Auld Rebel has landed in another port this morning, spreading the message
Hail Hail
TIMJIM
Aw balls! I’m easily confused as it is!!
Bed for me,work shortly. Apologies for the mix-up,mate.
Paddybhoy1888,
Congratulations on your special day, young fella.
You did indeed come into Celtic in the best era.
I posted yesterday that my first game at CP was in 1951.
What great players we have witnessed, both Celtic players and the great European ones.
Dontcha feel a wee bit sorry for the kids on here?
No, me neither! : > )
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
19:18 on
10 April, 2015
Maybe should change my name to TimJames
Bmcuw,
I see Oxford CC have issued a response to your online petition.
Please ignore this if you are cliqued up.
HH.
BMCUWP,
Touching post. Fair play.
BT/JC2,
I’ll buy you both a pint back here.
About posting, sometimes you can spend all day thinking, do research, and post…nothing.
Other days you can post while watching the tele… big response.
JC2
G72 postcode unlike that ML stuff 8))
thankfully my father and Mrs BT father are not from tyre so they brought new blood into the shire
What’s all the fuss about? Sevco will be able to use these trademarks after they hand over a mere £5 million to Ashley.Couldn’t be simpler.
Maybe they could liquidate and come back as Sevco 1872?
Everyone is a winner – see me, taught Kissinger everything he knew,
Cowiebhoy. St.Margarets in the Raploch is a lovely wee Church and Father Joe a great Priest now in his 70th year. The Service then on to Dunblane Hydro I think you will have a great day. H.H.
Could they not just change their name to “The Huns?” or would that be sectarian?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCPH08OVEAAKVfz.jpg:large
At last a decent statue in Glasgow honouring ‘King’ Billy. The other one had to be moved three times and hidden near the GRI to stop attacks on it…
reapwhatyousowCSC