®EOC Trademark ownership
It will be a surprise to many members that our club owns two historic Royal Enfield trademarks, which we pay for.
In 1995 Ian Parry set up a sub-committee of the REOC with the aim of safeguarding the use of the name Royal Enfield and the made like a gun logo. Ian successfully secured them in two trademarks: –
UK00002024203 ROYAL ENFIELD and UK00002027094 made like a gun + cannon device for use on items of clothing, headgear, printed matter and club services. We get most value from the second trademark which is located centrally in our unique club badge.
As a matter of interest, at around the same time, Eicher Group in India acquired Enfield India Ltd, and also the trademark Royal Enfield for use on their motorcycles, whose 350 and 500 Bullets had previously displayed just Enfield on their petrol tanks.
Every ten years we pay a fee to safeguard our two trademarks, which are due for renewal in 2025 at a cost of approximately £1500, so we need to get our money’s worth. It’s important to understand that the club didn’t want to prevent our trademarks being used by other parties, we wanted to ensure that we can use them without any legal issues.
We recently commissioned a professional designer to produce (restore) a nice sharp master artwork of our club badge to standardise what had become a mix of poor copies of previous copies of the club badge over the years. On our website you’ll find two design variants in three different colours, which can be downloaded and enlarged or reduced for any decorative purpose. One has a simplified gun image more suitable for embroidered garments and some specific printing techniques. Please use our unique club identifier, incorporating a trademark, which you’re paying for!