2026-07-15 20:31 UTC
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange 2026-07-15 20:44
@deirdresm@hachyderm.io fender has gone the IBM route (if you can't innovate, litigate) for years. i know a luthier with small production (< 25 instruments a year) who got a cease and desist for a telecaster shaped uke. wasn't electric, wasn't solid body, was a uke/not guitar, he'd made maybe 6 of them?
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@DavidBruchmann@mastodon.world 2026-07-15 21:50
@deirdresm@hachyderm.io I'd say in German Courts Fender has no chance, as the unprotected shape of a piece of MDF doesn't define the functionality or quality of a guitar, but we will see ...
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@Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-07-15 22:38
@deirdresm@hachyderm.io I vaguely remember something about losing rights (to a trademark?) when not enforcing them.. Not sure if this applies to whatever they're claiming here, but they have tolerated Stratocaster clones for half a century