Opinion Bring Back the Anchor

[anchor man]

Looking through the South Fremantle history book, Southerners forever More, written by club historian,Steve Errington, it covers the beginnings of the original Fremantle FC.What what I can gather the colours varied from blue and white to black and white.Also red and white.Before the name Fremantle, they were Unions, who wore red white and blue.1887 Unions changed their colours to red and white.Photos of the 1894 Fremantle FC showed the club wearing a variety of guernseys, hoops and vertical stripes.Another of 1898 the club were still wearing hoops.
The foundation team of 1900 also in hoops, but AI tells me that they wore a guernsey, red and white, that had three prominent chevrons.The photo in the book is all hoops.
In 1905 the South Fremantle club wore a guernsey with chevrons and also hoops.
But as far as the original Fremantle club wearing chevrons, it doesn't appear that is true.
But then I find these in a history of South Fremantle colours.
The site tell me that they used the original colours and guernsey design of the Fremantle cllub from 1900 to 1910.
Very confusing.

 

[Cappy71]

The anchor can make you look like you’ve got man ****. Darcy says no

 

[Gekko71]

The trademark you found is a Jeans brand in the U.S.

The trademark was lodged in the US under the Madrid Protocol, which means it also covers Australia.

It covers ALL forms of apparel, not just jeans. The listing specifically includes. sports jumpers.

Its a figurative trademark, meaning it covers any figure or illustration that looks like an anchor, not just one specific anchor design.

Unless the rules around Madrid registrations have changed in the last ten years, this registration means we can't use both the word "Dockers" and a drawing of an anchor at the same time in our apparel.

Even if we were to use the word 'Dockers', and even if this listing doesnt prevent it, the word Dockers is also covered by other seperate registrations, which we don't own or control.

The only thing we CAN do, is use a picture of the Fremantle Dockers logo, in an unchanged format from the one that is registered. That logo has its own seperate registration, which means its allowed, so long as we don't change it.

 

[rgauci]

It was lodged in the US under the Madrid Protocol, which means it also covers Australia.

It covers ALL forms of apparel, specifically including sports jumpers.

Its a figurative trademark, meaning it covers any figure that looks like an anchor, not just one specific anchor design.

We can't use both the word "Dockers" and an drawing of an anchor at the same time in our apparel.

I know, it’s a long standing Jeans brand, potentially older than the Fremantle Dockers.