00:00Former sports journalist Sullivan Melville says it's about time people
00:03become educated about a trademark. The name Soka Warriors which applies to the
00:07TNT football team is one which Melville came up with since 1998. He says if the
00:12Trinidad and Tobago Football Association is interested in wanting to have full
00:16ownership of the name he's not budging. So I have been mentioned to some of the
00:20people around the football that they should probably sit and try to
00:26understand what a trademark is and based on that then the conversation
00:31would be probably different or would be a wider range discussion. On that basis
00:37we we have our discussions we're waiting on the Football Association to have a
00:41better idea on how they could actually treat this matter and how they move
00:46forward where Soka Warriors is concerned and that's where we are at this point.
00:51Melville says for those who don't believe he owns the trademark the court
00:55proved otherwise and he has documents on him. He believes many use the name
01:00Soka Warriors willy-nilly failing to realize royalties are involved thus
01:04making it wrong to do so. In radio stations you're hearing all kinds of
01:08things about Soka Warriors and this and that but it's a trademark and it's gonna
01:12come a point now where all parties would have to restrain themselves or refrain
01:19from actually using the name Soka Warriors without authority or permission
01:23given to them to use that name because someone owns it and they have to
01:28respect that. He says trademarks in general have been given very little
01:32respect by people in Trinidad and Tobago and he's making a plea for that to
01:35change. You know people seem to be very lawless at times and they don't give
01:40respect to value for anything and it's about time when they can actually come
01:44and say well okay it's time to have respect for this show the value we are
01:49lawless let's become very more loyal to things in the country and relate to
01:55those matters and that's what I'd like to see happen. Melville says it would be
02:00good to get the TTF's view on the matter moving forward. Vinod Narwani, TV6 Sport
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