Why didn’t Maradona own his brand?

Matías Morla, Diego Armando Maradona’s lawyer and one of the characters who generates more controversy after the death of 10, makes headlines again after it was discovered that his company owns the trademarks of the former Argentine footballer. As a diffusion That of you, in TN, the company Sattvica SA, holds 100% of the legal rights of brands such as “Diego Armando Maradona”, “Diego Maradona”, “Maradona”, “Diegol”, “El 10”, “El Diego” and “La Mano de Dios”.

This company is registered in Buenos Aires and the lawyer’s brother-in-law, Maximiliano Pomargo, is registered as Substitute Headmaster. According to the Official Gazette of the Province of Buenos Aires, the lawyer Matías Morla founded the company on 11 June 2015, which is also denied according to the data of the National Institute of Intellectual Property (INPI), where Maradona does not appear as the owner of its trademarks.

What the Official Gazette says is: “The purpose of the company is to carry out the following activities on its own and / or on behalf of third parties and / or associated with third parties both in the country and abroad: Acquire, own, request, obtain, purchase, assign, transfer, license, franchise, grant use licenses, register and acquire trademarks, or otherwise have trademarks, notices and trade names, copyrights, patents for inventions and processes, industrial models and designs, utility models, know-how, Internet domain names and other intangible assets relating to intellectual and industrial property, as well as licenses on them “.