Double cream trademark latest

PFDarkside said:
See Coca-Cola, Caterpillar, John Deere, Home Depot, etc.
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Yep, all good examples. But you’d think, given it’s a free country, that a company can choose whichever color-way they like. The meat of the matter is the actual product, not colors. Seems petty to me, but it’s allowed by our patent offices so what do I know.

I wonder if Coke red, UPS brown, or John Deere green colors are in fact distinct only bc no one else is allowed to use them
 
EC Strat said:
Yep, all good examples. But you’d think, given it’s a free country, that a company can choose whichever color-way they like. The meat of the matter is the actual product, not colors. Seems petty to me, but it’s allowed by our patent offices so what do I know.

I wonder if Coke red, UPS brown, or John Deere green colors are in fact distinct only bc no one else is allowed to use them
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My understanding is that they have a trademark on that very specific Pantone color. If you want to open an audio company using a red that is similar but different than Coke red, (and your company isn’t Coke Audio) I think it’s ok. If you want to start a tractor company and use one shade away ftomorrow John Deere green, I believe you will have a lawsuit.

The interesting thing that I don’t know, is how is Dimarzio cream defined and how far away does a pickup have to be from that color to be ok. The other thing, if Bruno Mars can lose for sounding like funk in general, I guess anything is possible.
 
oilpit said:
I know that you can order covered custom shop double cream pickups and then just remove it . . .
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I think they stopped doing that also. Probably a letter from Larry's lawyers. Also, technically, it's a trademark. Not a patent. Patents expire, while trademarks don't.

Wasn't there a thread here a long, long time ago where people were talking about some recipe they had for staining white covers to be almost cream or aged? Seems like maybe espresso was involved. It was a long time ago.
 
Again - the bottom line is that Larry DiMarzio is a dooshrocket of the highest caliber.

No worries. China will be making spot SuperD's soon enough.
 
Wasn't there a thread here a long, long time ago where people were talking about some recipe they had for staining white covers to be almost cream or aged? Seems like maybe espresso was involved.
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I didn't read it, but I know of several methods for staining plastic items. The most effective usually involves coffee grounds and urine....
 
ICTGoober said:
I didn't read it, but I know of several methods for staining plastic items. The most effective usually involves coffee grounds and urine....
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I think I’m going to start a new relic’ing service where I create a nicotine and UV chamber to yellow stuff the old fashioned way.
 
I've read about methods using tobacco to stain. Also tea, various chemicals, etc. What's the deal on using UV? Basically like sitting in the sun for decades?
 
blakejcan said:
I just ordered some Bareknuckles in double cream. Wooot!
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About 8 years ago I ordered a Rebel Yell set and a few minutes the ahi I took the cover off of the neck pickup.....double cream underneath!!
The RY neck I one of my favorite neck pickups too.
 
eclecticsynergy said:
I suspect the one you have actually is a double cream Duncan.
Duncan's cream is slightly paler and a tad less orange than DiMarzio's.
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Maybe so....it definitely doesn’t have the same orange hue and is more pale. And now that I look at the pic above of the actual parchment pickup, that doesn’t quite look like what I’ve got either.
 
It's a little work, and a little initial investment, but there's always the option of getting a zebra and reverse zebra, and making a double cream and a black. Then sell the black.
 
ICTGoober said:
I've read about methods using tobacco to stain. Also tea, various chemicals, etc. What's the deal on using UV? Basically like sitting in the sun for decades?
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Yes, basically an accelerated version of natural aging. It breaks down plastics in ways that stains and dyes don’t do.

Tea is funny, I “aged” paper by soaking in tea in middle school to make letter look like they were from the Civil War for a project. When I got some pickup covers that were stark white I thought about soaking in tea to take some of that brightness away. (I ended up getting parchment and aged white covers that looked a lot better without the experiment)
 
Does anybody know if it's UVa or UVb that ages plastic and finishes? A regular blacklight might not work.
I've been tempted to try leaving a white humbucker on a sunny windowsill for a couple of months.
 
I've been tempted to try leaving a white humbucker on a sunny windowsill for a couple of months.
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Southward facing, of course. No trees in the way, either. I've done color fastness tests with stains on wood by taping the test piece against a window that gets plenty of sun for long periods of time.
 
ICTGoober said:
Southward facing, of course. No trees in the way, either. I've done color fastness tests with stains on wood by taping the test piece against a window that gets plenty of sun for long periods of time.
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Yah, I'm six floors up with a huge window facing SW. Plenty of sun all year round.
 
Clint 55 said:
Such bull ****. Why can't guitar companies trademark their shapes?
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They can, I believe...they just didn't when they should have. I think Gibson tried to do it to their V and Explorer shapes...in the early 2000s. By then, tons of companies had used those shapes.
 
Mincer said:
They can, I believe...they just didn't when they should have. I think Gibson tried to do it to their V and Explorer shapes...in the early 2000s. By then, tons of companies had used those shapes.
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Fender and Gibson both trademarked their headstock shapes.
 
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