ANKARA: Turkey’s Olympic pistol sharpshooter Yusuf Dikec has filed to trademark his nonchalant stance on the Paris Video games that went viral world wide, his coach advised AFP on Monday (Sep 2).
His coach Erdinc Bilgili mentioned that the transfer to guard the industrial use of his pose with the Turkish Patent and Trademark Workplace got here in response to others attempting to trademark it with out Dikec’s say-so.
“After being knowledgeable of quite a few trademark registration initiatives carried out with out Yusuf Dikec’s information, we submitted an software a couple of week in the past,” Bilgili advised AFP, including that the “different purposes have been rejected”.
Dikec’s obvious sangfroid impressed a flood of memes on-line, some evaluating him to fictional spy James Bond, whereas billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk shared a video of himself placing the stance.
His pose additionally grew to become extensively imitated amongst his fellow athletes since he received silver, Turkey’s first medal within the mixed-team 10m air pistol, with teammate Sevval Ilayda Tarhan.
Chelsea striker Nicolas Jackson additionally copied it on Sunday as he celebrated scoring in opposition to Crystal Palace within the English Premier League.
