According to the FCF, the problem is not the use of the shirt, but rather appears with said symbol of the Selection, encouraging commercial activities of companies and/or brands that are not sponsors of the Selection.
“In our opinion, an illegitimate use of the distinctive signs of the FCF is being made under the terms of Decision 486 of 2000, since the use of the official clothing and shirt of the Colombian National Team has not been consented or authorized. by the FCF”, reads the letter signed by Andrés Tamayo, general secretary of the FCF.
This Decision deals with everything related to patents, inventions, industrial and scientific designs, trademarks and their registration and protection.
Precisely, Title VI of said document refers to trademarks, which, according to the Decision, are defined as “any sign that is capable of distinguishing products or services on the market.”
Article 155 of Chapter III (Of the rights and limitations conferred by the trademark) establishes the limits that the owner of the registration may impose on third parties with respect to the use of the trademark. It is precisely part of this article that the Federation cites to justify its request to the Youtuber.
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The FCF statement to Wolf.
“The problem is that the ‘influencer’, with the Colombian shirt, advertises for brands that are not sponsors of the Colombian National Team. And the worst thing is that they are brands that are in direct competition with official sponsors of the team,” said the FCF in conversation with this newspaper.
