Tap the Spyker on the head
The soap opera surrounding the Dutch car brand Spyker will continue for a while. In January (yes seriously, only at the beginning of this year) the Dutch car brand officially went bankrupt. Other branches, however, went under earlier. There were still some open accounts with a total value of 1.45 million euros. The bankruptcy trustee already indicated at the time that Spyker’s trademark rights would be sold if CEO Victor Muller did not pay the creditors. The Stentor now reports that that moment has come.
Spyker would have collected 125,000 euros for the creditors, and that is not enough. “The trademark rights are valuable assets,” the trustee told in January The Stentor. Spyker is a well-known brand in automotive history, with a long history. There will be a lot of interest in the market for that, I suspect. I expect to be able to offer the brands in the very short term. It concerns dozens of trademark rights that have been registered in countries all over the world, from China to the Netherlands.’
Victor Muller is still fighting for Spyker’s trademark rights
The boss of Spyker is obviously not discouraged. The car manufacturer’s motto is not for nothing ‘nulla tenaci invia est via’, which is Latin for ‘no road is impassable for persevering’. He would still be busy collecting the remaining amount. We can also just imagine that Muller would buy back the trademark rights himself via-via if he gets the chance. Anyway, Spyker’s trademark rights will soon be hammered away.
