Source: EFE

The use of Diego Armando Maradona’s trademarks was returned to his legal representative Matías Morla, after the ex-footballer’s daughters launched a legal recourse against him for alleged fraud.

Since last March, the Argentine Justice ordered a precautionary measure where it prohibited to innovate and contract the brands related to Maradona that were already registered in the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) in favor of Sattvica SA, a company established by Morla on June 11, 2015.

Subsequently, during the month of May of the current year, the prohibition was extended to all applications for trademarks of the star, in particular those that were pending before the INPI, agreeing that the prohibition would also have effect outside of Argentine territory.

After months of dispute, it was recently announced that Chamber 4 of the National Criminal and Correctional Chamber of the city of Buenos Aires, ruled in favor of Morla, who always maintained that his company was the legitimate and authorized owner of the Maradona’s trademark according to an agreement between him and the footballer, who ordered Morla to send royalties from his trademarks to his sisters.

According to the publications by the local press, the National Chamber of Appeals stated that “the ruling being challenged has grounds that prevent it from being disqualified as a valid judicial act.”

For his part, Mauricio D’Alessandro, Morla’s lawyer, emphasized that “There are no more restrictions for the use of trademarks and the return is in Argentina and the world.”

Finally Morla, celebrated on his Instagram account saying: “Justice enforced Diego’s will and together with his sisters we can make use of the Maradona brand.”