Fender Guitar Stratocaster Body Outline Denied Exclusive Design Rights
By C1C Editor • Mar 27th, 2009 • Category: Musician BizAfter five years of hard-fought litigation, which included over twenty thousand pages of evidence demonstrating countless companies who have manufactured, marketed and sold guitars that use the body shapes that Fender sought to trademark, the TTAB concluded, “The evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that these configurations are so common in the industry that they cannot identify source.
