Eastwood is promoting this being built soon.
https://eastwoodcustoms.com/wp-conte...icky-mando.jpg
It appears they have the funding done, so now it is just a wait and see for the product.
http://eastwoodcustoms.com/projects/...dolin-tribute/
Eastwood is promoting this being built soon.
https://eastwoodcustoms.com/wp-conte...icky-mando.jpg
It appears they have the funding done, so now it is just a wait and see for the product.
http://eastwoodcustoms.com/projects/...dolin-tribute/
2022 SRC Electric Octave Mandolin
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That is most certainly a Rickenbacker rip off.
Chief. Way up North. Gibson 1917 A model with pickup. JL Smith 5 string electric. 1929 National Triolian resonator mandolin with pickup. National RM 1 with pickup. Ovation Applause. Fender FM- 60 E 5 string electric (with juiced pickups). 1950's Gibson EM-200 electric mandolin. 1954 Gibson EM-150 electric mandolin. Custom made "Jett Pink" 5 string electric- Bo Diddley slab style. Jay Roberts Tiny Moore model 5 string electric.
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They call it a tribute. I wonder if they have Rickenbacker's blessing and or licensing agreement to build them?
2022 SRC Electric Octave Mandolin
Crafter Acoustic/Electric Mandolin
Surf City Octave Acoustic Mando
Epiphone Les Paul Ukulele
Epiphone 1924 Recording A Tenor Banjo
Paramount 1929 Artcraft Tenor Banjo
The name is only 33% similar to "Rickenbacker", so I think there is legally no basis you could claim that this is intended to confuse customers. :-)
Now I will go work my business plan to sell "Straty" guitars.
It's interesting to me where people think that "copyright infringement" line should be. The half of the electric guitars in the world that aren't Strat copies are Les Paul copies. Yet no one seems to mind. So why be bothered by a copy of an instrument that is no longer made?Now I will go work my business plan to sell "Straty" guitars.
Mitch Russell
My understanding from prior conversation in the Cafe is that the headstock design is the only part of the Ricky protected by patent. The body shape, soundholes, placement of electronics, etc are all public domain. I am informed by my intellectual property attorney brother that such patents usually are an in toto arrangement. In other words, change script to block, go from screen to inlay, etc. and you have room to walk safely around concerns about patent infringement. In this case, it is removing the contrast headstock banner on which the brand appears and putting the Eastwood name with a contrast outline around the letters. IMO the legal dept. at Eastwood gets an A for their due diligence.
Last edited by Dave Greenspoon; Dec-16-2016 at 10:17pm.
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the Ric had a two piece maple mahogany body
Chief. Way up North. Gibson 1917 A model with pickup. JL Smith 5 string electric. 1929 National Triolian resonator mandolin with pickup. National RM 1 with pickup. Ovation Applause. Fender FM- 60 E 5 string electric (with juiced pickups). 1950's Gibson EM-200 electric mandolin. 1954 Gibson EM-150 electric mandolin. Custom made "Jett Pink" 5 string electric- Bo Diddley slab style. Jay Roberts Tiny Moore model 5 string electric.
"The applicant(Fender) has not established acquired distinctiveness such that these two-dimensional outlines of guitar bodies, standing alone, serve to indicate source," the TTAB concluded. "The evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that these configurations are so common in the industry that they cannot identify source."
I believe the Les Paul suit was tossed because the knock off in question was easily distinguishable form an original at a set distance that equated to the distance one would see a guitar on display in a store.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
C.S. Lewis
I still wish I could afford one of these.
2022 SRC Electric Octave Mandolin
Crafter Acoustic/Electric Mandolin
Surf City Octave Acoustic Mando
Epiphone Les Paul Ukulele
Epiphone 1924 Recording A Tenor Banjo
Paramount 1929 Artcraft Tenor Banjo
...sorry..................don`t get it....
Many companies like Rickenbacker only enforce their IP in the US - and they do so with some vigor - and largely ignore the wider world. Eastwood gets around it because they are a Canadian company.
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