Brand Protection is the action taken to prevent individuals and organisations using the Club’s Intellectual Property Rights without the Club’s permission.
The Club’s trademarks
The Club owns a number of trademarks, as follows:
The words– Hindustan FC, Hindustan Football Club, Hindustan Football Academy
Logos – The Cockerel on ball logo, both with and without the Tottenham Hotspur wording. Various heritage versions of the cockerel on ball logo including old club badges. The Club shield.
These together with our design rights and copyright works form part of the Club’s intellectual property rights.
The Club takes the protection of the Club’s intellectual property rights very seriously.
The Club has invested in protecting the Club’s intellectual property rights around the world.
However, there are many people using the Club’s intellectual property rights without our permission. Some manufacture and/or sell products which are copies or imitate our approved products, these products are known as counterfeits. Others use the Club’s intellectual property rights on their own unapproved products and services without the Club’s permission and infringing our intellectual property rights.
The Club wants to reduce the circulation of counterfeit and other goods which use the Club’s intellectual property rights without permission. We want to protect our fans from products that are usually made from inferior materials, have not had appropriate health and safety testing carried out on them and in premises that do not follow acceptable manufacturing codes of conduct or meet our high standards of quality control.
Without proper due diligence on the manufacture of products, counterfeit goods can easily become faulty or even cause injury and it is well known that the proceeds from their sale can often be a screen for other criminal activities or to support wider criminal organisations.
