上个月，吉布森品牌在德克萨斯州向院长的院长吉他举办了诉讼指控商标侵权和假冒。现在Aramadillo企业正式回应了西装，寻求解雇案件并提交反诉，以免寻求无效在吉布森的飞行v上的美国商标，探险家和ES-335身体形状，也指责吉布森干扰其经销商关系，甚至甚至威胁吉他商店，拒绝院长和Luna吉他的法律行动。
吉布森上周正式评论了Armadillo诉讼声称品牌的品牌，“几次尝试直接与他们沟通以避免长期的法律战斗”，希望找到“可能对双方有利”的“建设性分辨率”。
然而，在7月8日德克萨斯州东部地区提起的师资金，犰狳涉及吉布森（Gibson）的“对武器的业务关系和/或合同的侵害干扰”在2019年6月6日前往西装的申报。
“Prior to filing and/or service of Gibson’s Complaint, Gibson contacted guitar dealers (including Armadillo’s dealers), threatening legal action and demanding that dealers remove all Armadillo guitars with the V, Z, and/or semi-hollow guitar shapes,” the suit reads.
The suit cites the example of Carlino Guitars – a guitar shop in Medford, Massachusetts – which it claims was sent cease and desist letters by Gibson in April and May 2019. The letters allegedly demanded the removal of all Dean V and Z guitars from the shop’s website, accused them of being party to trademark infringement by stocking Dean instruments, and threatened the store with legal action if they didn’t comply.
诉讼要求基于“信息和信仰”，即吉布森向其他经销商和零售商发送了类似的信件，“随着犰狳的销售和合同关系的意图”。
The counterclaim also submits as supporting evidence a letter Armadillo claims was sent to Gibson’s dealer network on 3 June 2019, informing them of the forthcoming Armadillo suit, which the letter states is being pursued in light of Dean and Luna’s “blatant copying” and “counterfeiting” of Gibson designs.
This is backed up with a call to action for dealers to help the company “take back control of Gibson’s famous body shape designs” encouraging them to report any instruments they come across “that you believe uses Gibson’s trademarks without authorisation” either through their Gibson rep or via an online form on the Gibson website.
反诉指出，许多犰狳经销商也是吉布森经销商，并声称这些“威胁通信”导致了许多来自经销商的呼叫，“有关并害怕继续处理Armadillo”，并因此破坏其销售和业务关系。
标记它
备案中最潜在的有可能影响的方面涉及飞行V，Explorer和ES-335身体形状的商标问题。这些标志是Gibson原始假冒索赔的关键部分，作为其防守的一部分，Aramadillo不仅试图证明索赔没有优缺点，而且令人遗憾的是，它还试图让商标完全取消。
“上述设计已经突出地使用并促进了多年，并且在某些情况下，十年，”西装读。“一直在，吉布森坐在其声称的权利上并失败了。”The suit goes on to claim that Dean has invested millions of dollars promoting and marketing guitars with those shapes in that period, and as such, “some of Gibson’s accused trademarks are invalid because they are generic and/or incapable of serving as a source identifier for guitars”.
Back in 2009, Fender lost a similar case, which ruled that after 60 years of universal use, the Stratocaster, Telecaster and P-Bass body shapes were so commonplace they’d become generic (and as such could not be trademarked), while Gibson is already dealing with a suit relating to the ES-335 shape trademark that dates back to 2014. Gibson, in the early 2000s, had also对Singlecut Body Designs的PRS丢失了案件。
In calling for the counterfeiting claim to be dismissed, Armadillo claims that its long history of making these guitars renders the notion that they could be counterfeits invalid – “Armadillo’s product shapes are commonplace and are all branded with its distinct, well-known Dean and/or Luna house marks and distinct-looking headstocks,” the motion reads. “To suggest that famous musicians like Michael Schenker, Eric Peterson, Christian Martucci, and John Connolly have openly promoted, played, and endorsed spurious, ‘counterfeit’ products on stages across the world is absurd.”
反诉要求取消吉布森的飞行V，Explorer和ES-335身体形状商标，并寻求由公司与院长院长和吉布森经销商的沟通造成的所谓的干扰的“法律允许的最大损害赔偿”。
Guitar.com已联系Gibson对Armadillo的反诉方式评论，并将在发展中更新这个故事。
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