How much IP you can find in cycling?
A few interesting facts about intellectual property and cycling:
🚴 Il Giro, La Vuelta and Le Tour de France are all EU trade marks. Trade marks are also present in the names of the competing teams and the brands of the bikes.
🏆 World-class riders from yesterday and today such as Eddy Merckx, Marco Pantani, Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard or Primož Roglič own EU trade marks for their names and/or logos.
🟡 Le Tour de France is the only one of the three Grand Tours that has its winners jersey, the 'maillot jaune', registered as a trade mark.
🚲 Design rights not only protect the appearance of bicycles and parts of them, but also the riders’ clothes and helmets.
💡 Patents protect inventions and new technologies related to bicycles.
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