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15 May 2019, 15:20 (Ref:3903965) | #1 | ||
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Rich Energy
So Rich Energy as a sponsor for Haas was a topic of conversation in the 2019 pre-season thread (and felt reviving that thread was the wrong place to talk about current events.) If I remember correctly, I don't think anyone had much good to say other than if you want to appear to be a big fish, F1 sponsorship is one way to go about it!
One topic of discuss was the impending court battle between Rich Energy and Whyte Bike regarding the "stag" logo. In which... both companies use nearly identical logos. I think to most anyone it's obvious that one copied it from the other. The question is who is in the wrong. Apparently Whyte won the case... https://us.motorsport.com/f1/news/ha...-case/4388423/ Each company has their opinion on the ruling... https://whyte.bike/pages/stag https://twitter.com/rich_energy/stat...09045050388481 You can find the ruling here... https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/01...00235.pdf?2319 I have scanned through the ruling. There is one particularly juicy detail that falls in line with earlier commentary about nobody seeing Rich Energy product in stores, but yet Rich Energy talks about the quantities produced... Quote:
I am not an attorney and the judgement document is large. But it sounds like Rich Energy (really Storey and his childhood friend who co-designed the logo) lost, there might (?) be an injunction against usage of the logo (remove from Haas???) and have lost their trademark on the logo (Rich has acquired a trademark on the copied logo) It appears an appeal can be lodged, but Rich hasn't said if they will or will not do that. Richard |
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