Double cream trademark latest

i really don't understand mr larry dimarzio's trademark double cream crap.

i'm a lawyer in italy and dimarzio's legal arguments for a color and trademark are rubbish. because you can't monopolize one color and damage the entire pickup market, another question the real P.A.F gibson are double whites closer to Pantone PQ-12-0104TCX or porcelain white that doesn't violate the stupid trademark. i'm surprised how gibson, seymour duncan didn't go to trial against that.

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All their pickups are designed by Steve Blucher. How long has he worked there?

Did larry even have a hand in creating the Super Distortion?

I own a few dimarzios purchased years ago, this dumb trademark and his treatment of Chris Kinman are the reasons I wont buy another.

Oh and his photography is awful too.
 
its very shemeless of larry dimarzio only sue some builders because for exemple motor city pickups , stephen disegn pickups, and a lot others use differents types of double cream names like ,ivory, aged white , bone , parchment for get around the drademark
 
What was even more galling than the fact DiMarzio trademarked an historical color is the way they got ownership of the mark. They claimed acquired distinctiveness through five consecutive, exclusive years in commerce. That means for five straight years--they claim--they were the only pickup company selling double cream humbuckers. Only problem, that wasn't true. SD was; as were others.

By the way, WD Music Products got a trademark on the lipstick tube pickup using the exact same legal maneuver. During their so-called five years, numerous other companies were selling lipstick tube pickups including Danelectro, Jerry Jones, Chandler, Charvel, Ibanez, and SD, of course. The owner of WD submitted a signed affidavit to the USPTO, sworn under penalty of perjury, that WD and only WD was selling lipstick tube pickups during those five years. And WD's lawyer filed it.

WD's lawyer is also DiMarzio's lawyer. Coincidence?
 
Evan Skopp said:
What was even more galling than the fact DiMarzio trademarked an historical color is the way they got ownership of the mark. They claimed acquired distinctiveness through five consecutive, exclusive years in commerce. That means for five straight years--they claim--they were the only pickup company selling double cream humbuckers. Only problem, that wasn't true. SD was; as were others.

By the way, WD Music Products got a trademark on the lipstick tube pickup using the exact same legal maneuver. During their so-called five years, numerous other companies were selling lipstick tube pickups including Danelectro, Jerry Jones, Chandler, Charvel, Ibanez, and SD, of course. The owner of WD submitted a signed affidavit to the USPTO, sworn under penalty of perjury, that WD and only WD was selling lipstick tube pickups during those five years. And WD's lawyer filed it.

WD's lawyer is also DiMarzio's lawyer. Coincidence?
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Seems like that would be easy to fight. Why couldn't any of the other companies just demonstrate it wasn't true and defeat their claim?
 
beaubrummels said:
Seems like that would be easy to fight.
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Civil litigation is rarely easy and often extremely expensive. And SD did fight it and won the first two procedural battles in the war. But in the end, they were thinking about releasing a line of amplifiers and they had a business decision to make: fight DiMarzio or fund the launch of an amplifier line?
 
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Larry and WD win the battle, but lose the war. Under no circumstances, will I ever buy their crap.
 
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Again - that it could be THAT generic is just ridiculous.

TO me, it has to be Double Cream Double Hex. Otherwise it could be anything. And even then it could be other pickups.
 
You know, we could tag Larry as a racist. Good point that he did trademark double black also. White supremacist ?
 
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Thank you for expressing interest. The more who show interest, the better chance this project will have of succeeding when it comes time.
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would be great too if we can order the return of parchment white or some variation white vintage like porcelan white , ivory . its a good ideia ?
 
Evan Skopp said:
Civil litigation is rarely easy and often extremely expensive. And SD did fight it and won the first two procedural battles in the war. But in the end, they were thinking about releasing a line of amplifiers and they had a business decision to make: fight DiMarzio or fund the launch of an amplifier line?
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I know very well that civil litigation is very difficult and expensive but if too many builders join in a lawsuit that damned trademark would be removed

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