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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' ..."
Hell's Angels is the one and only motorcycle club. Everything else is a pissant copy.
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....
Clearhly. There dEsign approach. As
Wearing a logo of a group convicted of racketeering can, in fact, get you in trouble.
Are you FUCKING stupid, or what?
I mean, really now.
Why not walk around with a shirt on that states "Im into killing, sell drugs for profit, and will rape your fucking mother, father, and children just for fun". Then, go actually do it.
Then wonder why the cops pull you over.
Stop bitching just because you don't like the copyright / trademark system. The laws are there, and they are acting on them.
And believe you me, if the laws DON'T agree with them, then so be it.... Doesn't mean courts won't MAKE IT SO.
But seriously, try my statement above, and then write (when you get some education unit time) from prison and let us know how it all went for ya, K?
--Toll_Free
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.