‘Tigers’ and ‘wolves’ duke it out in court: Russian armored car maker sues biker association leader over trademark

AMZ, the defense firm that makes

AMZ, the defense firm that makes the Tigr, one of Russia’s modern armored cars, can’t call their latest project ‘Wolf’ because Russia’s largest biker club, the ‘Night Wolves’ owns the trademark. So AMZ is taking them to court.

Arzamas Machine-building Plant (AMZ) wants to call their latest armored car ‘Wolf,’ but they’ve hit a surprising road bump: the ‘Night Wolves’ have had the trademark for the word since 2000. Their leader, Aleksandr ‘Surgeon’ Zaldostanov, has personally owned it for 13 years now. So now, the Russian manufacturer has taken ‘Surgeon’ to intellectual property court, claiming he isn’t using the trademark.

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