Yesterday Yamaha secured a trademark registration for AN-X and as it pertains to Musical Instruments. Something new or an evolution of a 90s classic?
Tom Oberheim has announced that after 36 years, the worldwide rights to the Oberheim trademark are now back with its founder.
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Revival Electric and Origin Effects are both battling it out in the US legal system and via social media over a name
Sequential has applied to trademark the characters OB-X in terms of synthesizers. Is there a new synth on the way or are they just gazumping Behringer?
Heritage Guitars announces on Instagram that it's made a "defensive" legal filing against Gibson, alleging a "campaign of harassment", presumably over copyrights.
Behringer has been out shopping for trademarks and has added MONOPOLY to a list that includes Polykobol, Polivoks, Quadra, Prodigy and Logan amongst others. And did someone see a wasp?
Gibson has lost its Firebird guitar body shape trademark across the EU after a legal decision that echoes a previous one stripping Gibson of its Flying V trademark. Ouch.
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Armadillo is accusing Gibson of threatening dealers that are selling Dean and Luna guitars with legal action. They are also making a counterclaim against the Flying V, Explorer and ES-335 body shape trademarks.
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Gibson has now officially responded to the whole trademark infringement case with Dean Guitars and you can read the full statement here.
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Gibson has lost their Flying V trademark case in European courts. The court has stated that the US company just waited far too long to act.
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Dean Guitars CEO Evan Rubinson has gone on record defending his company's guitars, saying that Gibson’s claims are without merit. This could be the beginning of a bruising legal battle.
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Gibson goes on the offensive against copyright infringement, with a stark warning to luthiers copying its designs in a new YouTube video entitled, "Play Authentic". And it's, well, a bit odd.
Roland pulls their finger out and registers the design and layout of the iconic TR-808 and TB-303 as trademarks in Germany. How will this affect Behringer and other clone manufacturers?