Isn't "Hot Rails" a registered trademark?

[Artie]

Or does making the "r" small case get around that?

https://shoppartsland.com/jhr/

 

[Securb]

Slippery slope. I think they are describing the pickup as being hot and having rails. If it was a guitar pickup it would look like more direct intent to infringe in the copyright. It is a decryption not a product name "the two hot rails response ".

 

[Blille]

Looks like it is trademarked.

https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4809:61uidr.2.1

It says “NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "RAILS" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN” so you can refer to that kind of pickup as a “rails” pickup freely but “hot rails” would be infringing.

Not a lawyer.

 

[Artie]

Interesting bass pickup, regardless.

 

[Mincer]

I don't know if Korea recognizes such things.

 

[Artie]

I don't know if Korea recognizes such things.

I figured as much. But a shame, since Korea gets the "Duncan Designed" contract.