The surprise fight for the trademark of a notorious outlaw biker club with a deadly history

A fight for ownership of the trademark for an outlaw motorcycle club’s patch — a logo notorious from a biker war that killed more than 160 people — has been settled by federal bureaucrats at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.

In a strange clash of corporate rules meeting biker culture, the mother of a former national president of the Rock Machine Motorcycle Club faced a hostile takeover of her right to the logo by a law firm representing a client the lawyers wouldn’t name.