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Feds Target "Mongols" Biker Club's Intellectual Property
couchslug writes in with a Reuters account of a Federal raid on a California-based motorcycle club, the Mongols, on charges "ranging from murder and robbery to extortion, money laundering, gun trafficking and drug dealing." The interesting twist is that the authorities are asking the courts to seize the IP of the biker club — specifically, their trademarked name "Mongols." "Federal agents and police in seven states arrested more than 60 members of the Mongols motorcycle gang on Tuesday in a sweep that also targeted for the first time an outlaw group's 'intellectual property,' prosecutors said. The arrests cap a three-year undercover investigation in which US agents posed as gang members and their girlfriends to infiltrate the group, even submitting to polygraph tests administered by the bikers ... [T]he name 'Mongols,' which appears on the gang's arm patch insignia, was trademarked by the group. The indictment seeks a court order outlawing further use of the name, which would allow any police officer 'who sees a Mongol wearing this patch ... to stop that gang member and literally take the jacket right off his back' ..."
Funny, every time I see these "Biker" groups, they are always doing their best to look bad-ass, with the tattoos, grungy and gruff appearance, tough talk, and attitude.
Yet, they stick together like glue, go everywhere in packs, and stay together for 'protection'.
Gangs, street and bikers alike, are for big fake pussies who are too weak to carry their own, and need the help of dozens more to save their ass, rather than being able to do it themselves.
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
Are you a retard?
What can't you understand about a daycare being a business? What can't you understand about them doing trade and that trademarks are about restricting trade.
This is why the USA is in such a fucking mess. Idiots there don't even understand english, let alone the law.
How we know is more important than what we know.