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| Re: PRS/Gibson [message #69044 is a reply to message #69032] |
Wed, 07 June 2006 06:07   |
Neil
Messages: 1645
Registered: April 2006
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Perhaps after the Ibanez Les Paul rip-off's in the 70's, Gibson
feels they have to use ANYBODY making a single-cutaway electric
that looks anything remotely like a Les Paul.
On one hand, you are obligated to aggressively defend any
trademarks you may own, so if Gibson had let this slide, it
could open the door for a bunch more LP rip-off's. On the other
hand, the PRS & the LP are indeed, and quite obviously,
different-looking enough from one another that no observant
person could have any trouble telling them apart, but along
those lines, I think I may have mentioned here awhile ago in
another thread on a similar topic, that there was a shoe store
near where I work called "MGM Designer Shoes", and now it's
called "MJM Designer Shoes"... now, I'm sure no one in their
right mind thought: "Hey, MGM is branching out from movies &
opening a shoe store!", but I'm sure once MGM's attorneys
found out, that was the reason these people had to change the
name of their store.
I wonder if this lawsuit & the cost of defending it was the
reason PRS went downscale & started making $500 guitars... they
needed more volume coming in the door to pay their lawyers?
Neil
"Aaron Allen" <nospam@not_here.dude> wrote:
>Ditto. Way good, but I have to wonder, should PRS be sueing them for the
>damage it undoubtedly caused dragging this around the system for 6 years.
>If I were Paul Smith, I believe I'd be inclined to do so for legal fees,
>product defamation, etc...
>AA
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>"DC" <dc@spammersinacan.org> wrote in message news:44866053$1@linux...
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>> Good.
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>> "James McCloskey" <excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>> http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2006/PRS-Guitars-Gibson -Lawsuit.html
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>I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you?
>http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html
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| Re: PRS/Gibson [message #69060 is a reply to message #69044] |
Wed, 07 June 2006 12:42 |
DC
Messages: 722
Registered: July 2005
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"Neil" <OIUIU@OIU.com> wrote:
>I wonder if this lawsuit & the cost of defending it was the
>reason PRS went downscale & started making $500 guitars... they
>needed more volume coming in the door to pay their lawyers?
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>Neil
Well, this may be the real reason for it all. Henry Juskewicz, the
owner of Gibson is widely considered to be a major d*ck and was
just trying to beat up PRS and maybe drive them out of the market
with harassment lawsuits. All too often, the guy in the right is not
the winner, but the guy with the most money to hire scumball
lawyers is.
In this case, the good guy won IM-ever-so-HO.
DC
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