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The
founding members of the Po'g Mahon Motorcycle Club are remnants of the Wild Pigs Motorcycle
Club-Tracy, California chapter. The organizations second chapter.
The Wild Pigs was founded in June of 1987 in San Jose, California by a small posse of Deputy Sheriff's within the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office. The motorcycle club was designed exclusively for active and/or retired law enforcement officers and firefighters with a select few associate members. In 1994, two members of the San Jose chapter trademarked the club's name and its logo for the purpose of franchising it. The action created a division of R and R enterprises and the Wild Pigs Motorcycle Club. Several years would pass in court while both parties delivered their legal arguments for ownership of the trademark. During this time the WPMC continued to grow in membership. In 2000, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C. delivered a legal and binding decision as to the ownership of the club's name and its logo. The USPTO concluded R and R Enterprises to be the legal owners of the trademark. They also recognized the Wild Pigs Motorcycle Club as having "first-use" of the name and logo and they were therefore entitled to its continued use. A decision that at that time neither side could or would want to live by. The National WPMC Board offered R and R enterprises a monetary sum for the exclusive rights and ownership to the trademark but the offer was refused. |
The morale of the WPMC's membership was temporarily setback. Many chapters closed their doors and formed their own motorcycle clubs while others would franchise their chapters with R and R enterprises; beginning a new future in the history of the Wild Pigs Motorcycle Club, which still thrives today as viably recognized international Public Safety Motorcycle Club. The original members of the WPMC emerged with a new international identity in 2001, the Iron Warriors MC, which today enjoys a strong and growing membership that too is a viably recognized Public Safety Motorcycle Club. After nearly fourteen years and with great reluctance, Tracy, the number two chapter of the Wild Pigs MC had retired its charter in March of 2001, never joining the fold of the Iron Warriors MC. A year would pass before the members of the Tracy chapter would form the Po'g Mahon Motorcycle Club in March of 2002. The PMMC is a state and federally recognized 501(c)3, non-profit charitable organization for the recreational motorcyclist. Our main charitable recipients are the Sierra Vista Child and Family Services Organization and the Merced Union High School District - Child Development Center. Each year at Christmas time members and its supporters donate their time, money and effort to bring Christmas to the children of Sierra Vista and the MUHSD CDC who might not otherwise have a holiday filled with the spirit of love, joy and hope. The Po'g Mahon Motorcycle Club wishes well to all that we encounter and to those who pass our way. |
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