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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theglasgowcelticway
10:29 on 11 April, 2015
Melbourne Mick.
My dyslexia appears to be getting worse.I tried to make an anagram of Rangers (hope I haven’t broke any copyright laws) and came up with Huns.
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I’ve made up their new name without even having to use all the letters!
Didn’t need the ‘n’ or the ‘g’
HH jamesgang
Eddiegreenhillsbhoy: Sounds like you have a good idea of what you are going to do already. Kerry is a beautiful county as is West Cork. I holidayed there many times as a child. I don’t know much about Annascaul but it is mentioned in the Christy Moore ditty Don’t Forget Your Shovel If you want To Gonto Work!
There are plenty of beautiful beaches and if you like big waves anywhere in Kerry is a good place. Killarney will be nice, but very much geared towards the American market. My favourite places are in Corca Dhuibhne, the Gaeltacht (Irish speaking area). The Connor Pass, Dingle, Slea Head, Dún Chaoin and Ballyferriter are all beautiful areas. If you can, take a trip out to Skeillig Mhichíl and The Blasket Islands. There will be any amount of choices for places to eat and drink. Lastly, and I hate to say this, but if you can get to a Gaelic football match featuring Kerry grasp the opportunity. They are great exponents of the game and are second only to us Dubs!
C’mon the Hoops in Inverness today.
if they want to change their name only one
letter needs changing i give you
RINGERS
works for me
Someone making an important and valid point on the hun media site.
‘What about all the redundant tattoo’s AJ?’
A Guess The Name of the Bears competition. Excellent news. Next it’ll be a Guess How Many Sweeties In The Jar competition. Then the Fighting Fund will have enough to launch a legal battle to recover their pride an dignity an that…
The poor / the desperate / those with a low credit rating have always had to pay a high price for the privelege of borrowing money.The associated terms and conditions are usually legalised usury. Skintco – up to their knees in hock..Pound of flesh / Pound of flesh.
Big sun , clear blue sky and a cold wind – way down south.
Ernie-you’re joking…?
Bright again in EK.
I wonder how that partnership with The Dallas Cowboys is coming along…..
Theglasgowcelticway/ Jamesgang
Ghuy’s if were not using all the letters how about
RANGS.
Yes thats the one.
H.H Mick
So their latest cunning plan is to ……….walk away from their financial responsibilities
again !
Genius, just as well Ashley is a daftie and won’t have faced such manoeuvrings :-)
Hopefully their latest attempt at walking away will mark their card for future business dealings.
Sleet in EK
#bringbackjobo
weeminger
10:25 on 11 April, 2015
David Low on twitter suggesting that RIFC have already defaulted on the loan without saying how (by de-listing?), hence AJ story about new crest.
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Beat me to it :))))))
Cmon the Hoooooooooooops
just win though I fancy as to click well today against a team who had us hanging on at home, Big Craig Gordons save at the end was a gid yin :)))))))))
Big Virgil to score anytime in 90mins todayas a wee bit of value bet for me.
Celtic Football Club@celticfc · Apr 9
JC: The away support have been unbelievable, singing non-stop, so hopefully we’ll give them something to sing about on Saturday.
Why dont they just join up with the Dallas Cowboys, The Glasgow Cowboys makes good sense
Maybe they could adopt an idea from Prince?
Just call themselves ??? – with a subtext of The Team Previously Knows As….
It’s a bit derivative, but it might just work….
Given the GASL’s South African connections – why not?
Veldwagters!
Afrikaans.
……………..RINGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bognorbhoy – Kwality.
…………………………………..Deed Ringers?
;)
All this talk of trademarks and logos does a great job of keeping the hordes distracted from the fact that they don’t actually own Ipox and just pay rent for it! :)
So will I need to change my blog name :-)))
Bangers
Clangers
Dangers
Ye get the gist
Hail Hail
The team formerly known as The Huns.
(But we’ve decided to make out that term as sectarian to deflect from our own shameful behaviour and mindset)
Badges……….. Badges!
We don’t need no steenkin badges.
Good morning all.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Oops snow and hailstones now. Hurry back Jobo I’m rubbish at this
A nice wee dig.-
Mancini on the radio re tonight’s Verona v Inter game.Made the claim that the players have responded well to the imposed punitive double training sessions.Reporter man couldn’t resist a – ‘ OK – but have they learned how to defend ? ‘
Govan cowboys
Snow & Rain shower has passed and Sun now back out in Bannockburn :-)
Now at Wangers , could we start changing the middle letter now
Today you’ll see what RD means about Scottish pitches.
I have never seen s good game of soccer in Inverness, so any win will do.
Mon the 4G CSC
Mr Custard FC
Kikinthenakas
Just been informed that this has been the worst weather in Murcia in living memory and that it must be the fault of us Scottish tourists. I just shook my sunburnt heid….
as a complete aside
i notice andy murray is getting married today
i said at the time on this very stage that when he employed mauresmo as his coach that in time there will be rumours of the extent of their relationship
well in the same week he gets married, she announces she’s pregnant, which is good going considering she has previously announced that she’s gay.
well there we are now, how convenient.
DailyStarCSC
The weather in Jobo Polllenca is partly cloudy and 18 degrees.
New Hun crest(fallen) ….
TBJ
Well done on the memorial stone,great work.:-)
and you talkin bout looks has a gentle beauty bout it tae hahaha :-)
HH
And the Rebels have arrived in Inverness.
Thankfully having driven through sleet, wind and snow we’ve been welcomed by sunshine.
Nothing….’cause they’re deed
Wainjurz…………….
Mon the hoops….!!
….and I missed “crestfallen” too……………….
Superbe!