Re: Gibson threatening the mandolin and guitar luthier community
Originally Posted by
Bernie Daniel
It might seem ridiculous to you but you don't own Gibson. Most companies do things like that. All of the automakers have each patented thousands of names -- names they really never intend to use most likely but they are names that they don't what their competitors to have access either. Its common business practice and it is naive to think otherwise?
Fiat-Chrysler just got a patent on the name "Saint". Why? Because they don't want Ford or GM to make a car called the "Saint" and claim it will crush the Dodge "Hellcats" and"Demons". It is called PR and it is part of business.
You're right. I don't own Gibson (but if I did, I would have done things differently a long time ago, but that another story). Anyway, being prolific doesn't legitimize the process. Well, maybe it does, in a way. That's the way they do business. I think I'll register "air," "rain," "water" and maybe I'll come up with some more later. My law firm of Delay, Knockwood & Pray (a division of Dewey, Cheatham and Howe) will handle my lawsuits.
David Hopkins
2001 Gibson F-5L mandolin
Breedlove Legacy FF mandolin; Breedlove Quartz FF mandolin
Gibson F-4 mandolin (1916); Blevins f-style Octave mandolin, 2018
McCormick Oval Sound Hole "Reinhardt" Mandolin
McCormick Solid Body F-Style Electric Mandolin; Slingerland Songster Guitar (c. 1939)
The older I get, the less tolerant I am of political correctness, incompetence and stupidity.
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