FAO - Mr Sterling Ball/EBMM Lawyers

[Ricman]

Saw this on ebay..I'm no lawyer but this can't be right....

THE GUITAR BOUTIQUE PRODUCES EVERY GUITARISTS DREAM INSTRUMENT JUST LOOK NOW | eBay

 

[threeminutesboy]

disgusting, shameless copy but it's outside UK don't know if EBMM can do something

 

[Jack FFR1846]

report the item as being a copyright infringement. I just did

 

[meanMRmustard]

Good lord awful stuff

 

[OU812]

Not sure why you guys are disgusted by this? Is it right? No, but I mean how many companies use the Strat or LP body shapes to make their 'own' guitars. If you want an original theres only one place to get them of course.

Besides....
"The biggest form of flattery is imitation"

 

[Jack FFR1846]

but copies of protected trademarked products isn't legal.

If nothing else, the 4 over 2 headstock is very much trademarked by EBMM

 

[koogie2k]

report the item as being a copyright infringement. I just did

Same here.

 

[DrKev]

It's a job for Wonderdog!

 

[Serps]

but copies of protected trademarked products isn't legal.

If nothing else, the 4 over 2 headstock is very much trademarked by EBMM

lol, you can't trademark that. Can you imagine someone trying to get away with "I built the first guitar with 6 pegs on one side!".

 

[paranoid70]

I thought the same myself, but I think EBMM truly does have a patent on the 4+2 headstock.

 

[the24thfret]

This has been covered ad nauseam. This is indeed copyright infringement. EBMM does have a patent on the 4+2 headstock. What else they have patents on I don't know.

 

[beej]

Trademark guys, not patent. In the USA.

 

[Dreadge]

I'm a lawyer, but I don't know much about Common Law, but I assure you, that thing isn't legal if he mass produces it, but for a single project it's allowed. But that thing is hideous! Man, I want to burn it with fire!

 

[Jack FFR1846]

It sure looks from the eBay ad that he plans to mass produce.

If the first builder of the inline 6 headstock trademarked it, and defended the trademark, they would own that.

Builders do occationally build something which violates trademarks. I personally know of one Carvin guitar that was hastily taken off of their "guitars in stock" site.

 

[brasco68]

Gross...is nothing sacred?

 

[Jack FFR1846]

This has been covered ad nauseam. This is indeed copyright infringement. EBMM does have a patent on the 4+2 headstock. What else they have patents on I don't know.

The Silent Circuit.

Guys, you don't have to believe me or Beej on this. Go to USPTO.gov and look up the patents and trademarks yourself. I downloaded the entire silent circuit patent because I'm a EE and was interested in exactly what they were doing. It made wiring my Sub 1 with Silo pickups, a non-super 5 way and a silent circuit and battery easier, because I understood what was going on.

Try building a Prince guitar....that's trademarked as well.....and heavily protected.....