Ssd Acr Messina 1900 officially reclaims the trademark, which was at the center of a legal dispute between the bankruptcy trustee and the Cooperative Society which had claimed its “defense” at a time when the previous owner, “Sciomari Srl”, had not exercised the renewal of the registration, effectively leaving it without protection. A few days ago the Italian Patent and Trademark Office accepted the curator’s request. The current company thus becomes full owner of the historic brand and its name.
“We welcome this decision with serenity and satisfaction, because the result is what we have hoped for and pursued since day one: the historic brand remains in Messina – we read in a note released by the SCC -. In the summer of 2025, while Messina was experiencing one of the darkest moments in its history, without ownership, without certainties and, above all, without news about its future, the Società Cooperativa Calcio Messina was born. It was then that we intervened, with a single objective: to take the brand away from those who, over the years, had brought it into disrepute, to safeguard it and hand it back into the hands of those who would continue to carry forward the name of Messina and Messina. Ours was, from the first moment, a gesture of love and protection towards the football heritage of our city. A gesture made to prevent the brand from ending up in the hands of the first passing speculator or from repeating what happened in the nineties with the Massimino brand, when a piece of Messina’s history ended up far from home”.
When the Receivership, represented by Maria Di Renzo, had taken over from the previous corporate structure that had led the club to bankruptcy, it decided to propose opposition to the registration of the Cooperative, probably for technical reasons, i.e. to give value to the notice of sale published in order to give a future to a sporting reality on the brink of the abyss.
“Even in this circumstance, as in every step that has characterized our work, we have demonstrated the nature and purposes of our initiative: the good of Messina. From the outset, in fact, we had given the Curator’s approval to use the trademark, even though it was formally registered in the name of SCC Messina. We subsequently reiterated our desire to entrust the trademark free of charge to the new ACR Messina company. For months we kept it, with the awareness that that symbol was not something to own, but a heritage to be preserved and returned to its community. We entrust today, with confidence, the responsibility that wearing that coat of arms on the chest entails to the president Justin Davis and to all those who work for this company on a daily basis.”.