this is ridiculous. how can you now suddenly start enforcing this after like 70 years?

Fender has always maintained it wants to find collaborative ways to allow its rivals to continue making the disputed instruments.

Of course, they want a cut

Have you ever made a fuckton of money and then woke up one day and decided you wanted even more?

i’m more talking about courts allowing it legally. the precedent had been set.

a double cut!

Cease and desist.

OK.

No, not like that!

What a slop article.

I doubt Fender's case will stand
They too have been copying from others different solutions over the years
For example the contoured neck joint (dunno the exact name in english), i don't think they invented it but they have models using it.

That... looks an awful lot like the Donner NHL- or HLX-500 body except for the electronics panel.
Right down to the wood, which is okoume (I have one.)

I'm not saying it's a Donner, obviously, I'm saying it looks like an existing style being produced from okoume, so maybe there were production reasons for the shape.

Because Fender hasn’t been about making music in a loooong time.