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Originally Posted by giantslayer
It is worth noting that the case of Gibson vs PRS was over tradmark infringement on body design.
One thing that I don't think anybody's brought up is that, for a lot of people, Telecaster is more than a specific model name of a guitar made by a specific manufacturer. It's become a type of guitar (in people's minds, not legally). It's like Kleenex®. If it's not an actual Kleenex® brand tissue, it's legally just a tissue, but people think of and refer to their generic tissues as "Kleenex."
I know Kleenex isn't the best example out there, but my point is to try to explain a possible reason why people would want their partscaster to say "tele" or "fender" on it.
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Kinda the same like Tupperware I guess. But if specific guitar manufacturers clamp down on their own body designs, the world will be a lonelier place because there'll be less Teles to go around :(