Fender loses guitar copyright case

[twonabomber]

If EVH can trademark freakin stripes on a strat, how can fender not win this for the actual guitar ??

i'm no lawyer, but i think that Fender waiting "x" amount of years before they started trying to protect their "intellectual property" can be seen as being okay with others copying the design. had they been hard-asses from day one they'd have a better claim on the design.

[Coyote]

Fender's just pissed off that someone other than Fender is trying to refine the wheel...

[Panamark]

They need a different law firm I reckon....

Guitar manufacturers even use their name when
describing the product...

[Panamark]

" This is our Fender based model... blah blah"

[Panamark]

They should at the very least have full rights over the names
"strat" or "stratocaster". Yeah they waited too long, but
what about governments giving land title to natives
from 40,000 years ago ?? (aboriginies in Oz for example)
Seems time can be overcome in the courts...

[ELVIS]

They do have rights over their names and models...

[degüello]

And I can tell that second image of a guitar is NOT a Fender in a second!

Wow, that's incredible. What an amazing ability.

[ELVIS]

Thankya, thankya verymuch...

[jhale667]

So much for that theory

No, it's not a Squier with that sqared off neck and that bridge, or the wood for that matter...

Some Chinese crap copy...

Could be...but for the record, I've seen Chinese made Squiers. Late '90s-early '00s...

[jhale667]

I think this sucks for fender, the strat shape especially.
If EVH can trademark freakin stripes on a strat, how can fender not win this for the actual guitar ??

Problem is, they've been allowing people to copy the Strat, Tele, P and J bass bodies and necks for decades (again, in some cases exactly, period-specific contours, etc.)...not like it's some new design they want to clamp down on.
The licensed manufacturers can even do period-specific headstocks.

20 years later they want everyone to stop? Including suppliers Fender themselves have outsourced parts from on occasion? Uh, no...(crosses fingers)

[Panamark]

I didnt know Fender had given outright permission to these other guys.
In that case, why the fuck are they wasting their money in court ?

[jhale667]

I didnt know Fender had given outright permission to these other guys.
In that case, why the fuck are they wasting their money in court ?

My thoughts exactly. They let a few manufacturers (Warmoth and Musikraft spring to mind) basically build a cottage industry making accurate replica/replacement parts, and then they want to pull the plug why - because it got successful?

[GAR]

My thoughts exactly. They let a few manufacturers (Warmoth and Musikraft spring to mind) basically build a cottage industry making accurate replica/replacement parts, and then they want to pull the plug why - because it got successful?

Propagating this yarn that Fender allowed others to copy their designs is not proper.

[BrownSound1]

I thought the Fender license to companies like Warmoth and Allparts was giving them permission to manufacture Fender type headstocks on their replacement necks.

[Nickdfresh]

Most sites don't allow you to re-post their material since it is copyrighted hence just a link.

Why not? Google does.


I think if you post four para's or less, then link the rest, you're/we're safe.