A fight for ownership of the trademark for an outlaw motorcycle club’s patch — a logo notorious from a biker war that killed more than 160 people — has been settled by federal bureaucrats at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.
In a strange clash of corporate rules meeting biker culture, the mother of a former national president of the Rock Machine Motorcycle Club faced a hostile takeover of her right to the logo by a law firm representing a client the lawyers wouldn’t name.
The Rock Machine name and logo is recognizable to many people of a certain age, particularly in Quebec. The patch was worn on the backs of the losing side of a devastating underworld power struggle with the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club that shockingly stretched from 1994 to 2002 with a staccato of shootouts, assassinations, bombings, arsons, mass arrests, and screaming headlines.
- Five Hells Angels and Red Devils Members Sentenced to Jail for Bar Assault and Vest Robbery
- Three Arrested After Shooting Damages Satan’s Choice
- Man Charged in Mongols Motorcycle Club Killing Hangs Himself in Pinellas County Jail
- LIVEWIRE IS TANKING BIG TIME
- Shooting of Satan’s Choice Member Not Club-Related
