As ordinary members will know, the May 2011 issue of MPH, the VOC's monthly journal, carried the following snippet: "The Honourable Secretary reported on the details of a minor conflict of interest with regards to the registration of the Club's trademarked name Vincent H.R.D. Owners Club. The Honourable Secretary was however able to report that our other solicitors had just two days previously reported that a resolution looked likely as the other party had offered to pass the conflicting registration over to the Club". The "other party" in question is of course former VOC Treasurer Roy Huxley. According to sources close to the Executive Committee of the Vincent HRD Owners Club, as opposed to the Board of Directors of The Vincent H.R.D. Owners Club Ltd, members of the VOC EC spent more than £1,000 on solicitors who bullied Roy Huxley into handing over what minutes of the 130th GCM meeting described as the "dormant" company. According to sources close to Mr Huxley, he had made his purpose in setting up the company known to a number of people, as well as his eventual intention to gift the company to the Vincent HRD Owners Club because, as the record shows, the current VOC management had clearly not thought of taking this step themselves, despite taking steps to trademark the club logo and badge in 2006. Like other former VOC officials and officers and a number of members, Mr Huxley's sense of loyalty to the club he had served - or tried to serve - to the best of his ability did not include the slavish, unquestioning devotion demanded by the power-crazed members of the current management regime. So why involve the solicitors, when a simple dialogue with Mr Huxley would have sufficed? According to a source close to the VOC EC, disgusted by the way in which The John Lumley Scandal was managed, the reason is simple: no member of the Executive Committee of the VOC is on speaking terms with Mr Huxley. Roy and Diane Huxley remained on the Board of Directors of The Vincent H.R.D. Owners Club Ltd for over a fortnight after the appointment of Tim Kirker and Andrew Everett to the Board, before being "terminated" on 8.4.2011.
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So if they only acquired it to prevent anyone else from registering it as a limited company (how would that be possible?), why is their trademark application under The VOC Ltd and not just VOC?
ReplyDeleteWonder what this rules change will involve and why they are spending our money on solicitors to write these new rules.
ReplyDeleteHas the treasury nailed the troops yet?
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