Tottenham
and Wales winger Gareth Bale wants to trademark his heart-shaped hand gesture
goal celebration, the trademark was filed on March 26 at the Intellectual
Property Office which has listed the trademark’s owner as “Gareth Bale”
courtesy of sports management company The Stellar Group Limited.
If successful Bale could pocket
up to £3 million a year, and it could end up appearing on a list of items that
include..... Jewellery, precious stones, leather and imitations of
leather, animal skins, hides, trunks and travelling bags, umbrellas, parasols
and walking sticks, whips, harness, saddler, clothing, footwear and headgear.
This is
the most ridiculous story in football right now, how can you trademark a hand
gesture that is so commonly used, this is just stupidity combined with greed.
Adding
to this is the fact that Justin Bieber apparently also uses a similar gesture
so there could be more to come from this.
But
hopefully the Intellectual Property Office do the right thing and inform Bale
and The Stellar Group where to stick their nonsensical application.
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