More bad news for Gibson

[ICTGoober]

https://www.musicradar.com/news/gibson-loses-its-firebird-guitar-body-shape-trademark-in-the-eu

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: More bad news for Gibson

Lesson to other manufacturers: Waiting 50 years to protect your designs is dumb.

[Demanic]

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Given that I think that the firebird shape is meh at best, no great loss.

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[ICTGoober]

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Gibson should save some money by firing all but a few lawyers and focus on making the best guitars they can.

[ibanezrocks]

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Gibson should save some money by firing all but a few lawyers and focus on making the best guitars they can.

Simplify the lineup and remove the guitars that add unnecessary expenses but bring little revenue, focus on keeping only the best ones.

Did I say guitars? I meant lawyers.

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[Mincer]

Re: More bad news for Gibson

I have no idea why they would have waited that long. Worse, is the lawyer who took the case trying to protect a 50 year old design that everyone has freely copied over time. He/She had to know they were going to lose that.

[Demanic]

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I have no idea why they would have waited that long. Worse, is the lawyer who took the case trying to protect a 50 year old design that everyone has freely copied over time. He/She had to know they were going to lose that.

I'm sure that they also knew that, win or lose, they would still be getting paid.

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[ICTGoober]

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I'm sure that they also knew that, win or lose, they would still be getting paid.

Yuppers. A percentage of nothing is nothing.

[LLL]

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Good.

[Demanic]

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Yuppers. A percentage of nothing is nothing.

Yes, but I'm sure that the retainer and per diem are still substantial.

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[Discharged]

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Why is this interesting?

Both designs are fugly enough not to be massively copied anyway.

I'm sure it must be a point somewhere that I'm failing to see?

/Peter

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: More bad news for Gibson

Why is this interesting?

Both designs are fugly enough not to be massively copied anyway.

I'm sure it must be a point somewhere that I'm failing to see?

/Peter

Both designs have been copied. More than a few times.

[Rex_Rocker]

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I think the Firebird design is cool... it's the RD that's kind of an atrocity that's become hip lately.

[JB_From_Hell]

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I think the Firebird design is cool... it's the RD that's kind of an atrocity that's become hip lately.

I think the RDs look cool when Ghost is playing them. Beyond that, not so much.

[Silence Kid]

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I think the RD is Gibson’s most attractive design - But the Firebird is my favorite typical Gibson style (not a Les Paul fan, at least the body shape.)

The *true* ugly is a non-reverse Firebird- Then again I’m an offset fan, and both Firebirds basically are uglier Jazzmasters.