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  • Re: Fender guitar lawsuit

    From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to Nightfox on Sunday, June 14, 2026 17:07:15
    Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

    I feel like it can be difficult to know what's actually built in the US anymore. Even if the company is an American company, the product is sometimes assembled in other countries (cars are a prime example, where cars from an American brand might be assembled in Mexico or the US, for instance). And even when they're assembled in the US, some of the
    parts are often made overseas.

    I think I saw some numbers a while back that suggested if you wanted a car
    that is made in the USA you were better off buying a Toyota or Honda.
    Toyota has an assembly plant in the next county over from me. When that
    plant was built in the 1980s, over time a lot of other plants... that
    supply their parts... sprung up in the surrounding area.

    I don't know about now but back in the 1990s I know they were big into the "just in time" materials inventory philosophy, so their preference was to be able to order and quickly receive parts. That meant the parts needed to be made nearby and not overseas.



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  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to Adept on Sunday, June 14, 2026 17:07:15
    Adept wrote to Nightfox <=-

    But that was a European court.

    And was evidently a default ruling.

    With it being a default, that means one party didn't present a case. I
    mention that because the story I saw indicated that it might have turned
    out differently if the case had been contested.



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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Nightfox on Monday, June 15, 2026 14:54:30
    I can kinda see why a company might want to copyright the shape of one
    of their products - they'd want people to associate it with their brand.

    Yeah, that aspect makes sense to me, though more on a short-term basis. E.g., here it's a company that's trading off of a long-ago reputation by a guy who is now dead, and left the company long before then.

    think it's pretty much a non-issue, and it feels like Fender is being a dick by suing other guitar companies for doing this - especially after

    ...so, yeah, they're definitely being a dick.

    I'm sad that doesn't matter more, especially for companies that no longer make the best products.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Dumas Walker on Monday, June 15, 2026 09:34:20
    Re: Re: Fender guitar lawsuit
    By: Dumas Walker to Nightfox on Sun Jun 14 2026 05:07 pm

    I think I saw some numbers a while back that suggested if you wanted a car that is made in the USA you were better off buying a Toyota or Honda. Toyota has an assembly plant in the next county over from me. When that plant was built in the 1980s, over time a lot of other plants... that supply their parts... sprung up in the surrounding area.

    I don't know about now but back in the 1990s I know they were big into the "just in time" materials inventory philosophy, so their preference was to be able to order and quickly receive parts. That meant the parts needed to be made nearby and not overseas.

    I've also heard of other reasons car makers might build a factory in another country - Mainly to build vehicles for the local market that would normally be difficult to import, though that's basically political, so I won't say any more about that.
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