Diego Maradona lifting the World Cup in 1986. (Credit: Twitter)
Maradona secured an EU trademark to his title for clothes, footwear, hospitality and IT providers in 2008.
The heirs of Diego Maradona who died three years in the past on Tuesday gained their struggle to make use of the Argentine soccer genius’s title after Europe’s high courtroom mentioned Argentine firm Sattvica belonging to his former lawyer was not entitled to the trademark.
Maradona secured an EU trademark to his title for clothes, footwear, hospitality, and IT providers in 2008.
After his dying in 2020, Sattvica requested the EU patent workplace EUIPO to switch the trademark to the corporate based mostly on a 2015 doc issued by Maradona authorising Sattvica’s industrial use of the commerce mark and one other undated settlement.
Maradona’s heirs subsequently requested EUIPO to strike out the switch registered in its document.
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The EU patent company in a choice final yr mentioned Sattvica had not submitted paperwork confirming the switch of the trademark to the corporate. Sattvica then took its case to the Luxembourg-based General Court, Europe’s second highest.
“The documents produced by that company do not formally justify an assignment of the trade mark in its favour under a contract signed between the two parties (Sattvica and Maradona),” judges mentioned.
“Furthermore, as Maradona had died before the request for registration of the transfer was submitted, Sattvica could not correct the irregularities found. Nor was it able to produce any other documents,” they mentioned.
The General Court of the European Union have dismissed Argentine firm Sattvica’s case to imagine management of the ‘Diego Maradona’ trademark in Europe. pic.twitter.com/crZSvCOVZ8— Ben Jacobs (@JacobsBen) November 7, 2023
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Sattvica can enchantment to the EU Court of Justice, Europe’s high courtroom.
Maradona rose to stardom from a Buenos Aires slum to steer Argentina to World Cup victory, gaining the long-lasting standing of fellow Argentines Che Guevara and Evita Peron.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – Reuters)
