Specialized OWNS Roubaix

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/specialized-roubaix-trademark-legal-threat-may-backfire-as-fuji-weighs-in

http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/12/bikes-and-tech/specializeds-disastrous-trademark-case-is-unnecessary-to-defend-the-brand_310878?utm_medium=whats-hot

Idiots man.

My old company has as a customer a client, headquartered in the Nordics, who make a very popular childrens toy which requires assembling after purchase, and subsequent re-assembly (if desired).

One of their highest priorities is dealing with IP infringement as they are TERRIFIED of becoming the next "Hoover", i.e. their name becomes the generic label for one form of plastic brick.

However, unlike Specialised they conduct themselves with a great deal of intelligence and circumspection- knowing that sending the legal equivalent of an armed Predator Drone after a 7 year old and his "look what I made at Christmas" website is not the right thing to do.

Yeah, but that company didn't name their product after a town that hosts a well-known toy-building competition, did they?

So Specialized didn't actually own the rights to 'Roubaix' anyway, and licensed it from someone else?

Staggering bullcuntishness.

i think they actually did register the trademark in canada but they shouldn't have as they only license the name from ASI in other markets so essentially this has highlighted the fact that they're pulling one over on ASI in terms of trademark in canada.

if ASI had worldwide rights as they claim, then surely Specialized would not have been able to register the mark in Canada??

i mean more that they're on thin ice considering asi could pull their license in markets like the US if they think they're playing silly buggers elsewhere.

Cafe Roubaix posted this on their FB page
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=429367720519294

Now follows a week of critiquing Mike Sinyard's tone, demeanour, dress sense, airfares, religious beliefs etc.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v83/johnnyhotdog/b3661c10-ff05-4d71-a9c4-d17acd0870e7_zps48a9e6ec.png

jonny, can you make that picture a bit bigger.

Cheers

jonny, can you make that picture a bit bigger.

Cheers

I would have got away with it if it wasn't for you pesky kids.

Cafe Roubaix posted this on their FB page
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=429367720519294

That prolonged handshake/hug was hard to watch

DAILY MAIL LEVEL OF RAGE

HOLD MY COAT, THEY'RE AT IT AGAIN, BREAK OUT THE PITCHFORKS AND TORCHES AGAIN!!11!!11!!111!!!!

http://www.facebook.com/epixgear

slevless >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

those tri cunts can fuck off

war veterans ONLY

All this capitalistic, corporate chicanery is making me remember my leftist leanings. Are Reclaim the Streets still around? I remember a march with them for the Liverpool dock workers with them and we ended up raving outside the National Gallery with old Horatio looking on approvingly. It was great apart from the lack of facilities, phone boxes for the ladies, walls for the rest of us, oh that and the police line klettling us. A lorry with a massive sound system just rolled up and let rip with a bit of psy-trance. Those were the days.

Anyway I digress. Cyclists are a bit of a militant bunch, quite happy to assemble in large numbers and shout at people. Get Reclaim the Streets involved, demonstrate about the cyclists going under lorries and the corporate arseburglary by Specialized and their ilk, then turn up the music and have a party.

Arseburgers.

https://www.facebook.com/specializedUK/posts/587207711335190:0

Everyone loves a happy finish.

^ a "happy ending" - yes please.

... walks away whistling Roubaix Tuesday

That joke never gets old*.

*apart on mumsnet.

Round two:

http://road.cc/content/news/115804-neil-pryde-bikes-renames-its-alize-bike-following-trademark-dispute-specialized

pricks

It's ok, there are still lots of other words Neil can use.

Meh, Specialized aren't the only one in the world doing this, and it's always happening.

Wasn't that mentioned earlier?

Specialized have been missing the limelight.

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