Members Snappy Hat Posted August 11, 2012 Members Share Posted August 11, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Longhair Posted August 11, 2012 Members Share Posted August 11, 2012 Having a trademark is pretty much useless unless you are able to enforce it. I remember reading about how a company has spent thousands of dollars trying to stop China from flooding the market with the same exact product for 1/10 of the cost with no sucess. On one of their future products which they hold all the rights to, a counterfit version came out based on their patent designs alone leaving no money to actually create the product and release it to the market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BeeTL Posted August 30, 2012 Author Members Share Posted August 30, 2012 Here's the first prototype bass: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wagdog Posted August 30, 2012 Members Share Posted August 30, 2012 That bass... looks pretty cool! Definitely like it! IMO, the headstock looks awesome on the bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grantus Posted August 30, 2012 Members Share Posted August 30, 2012 Sweet-looking bass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billythegoat Posted August 31, 2012 Members Share Posted August 31, 2012 Amazing! I would buy one for sure!! Classy, retro and funky all in one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members u6crash Posted August 31, 2012 Members Share Posted August 31, 2012 For what it's worth, I dig both the body and the headstock. I'd totally buy one if the price was right (and I weren't trying to buy a house right now on top of wanting to build my own guitars too ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bucksstudent Posted August 31, 2012 Members Share Posted August 31, 2012 The body reminds me of a Danelectro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BryanMichael Posted August 31, 2012 Members Share Posted August 31, 2012 Not to be disrespectful, but that body shape looks like an Alverez solid body that is in my local Music Go Round to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BeeTL Posted September 17, 2012 Author Members Share Posted September 17, 2012 Thanks guys, and no disrespect taken. Coming up with something new in a body style is next to impossible. The headstock is one of those things that just worked out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted September 17, 2012 Members Share Posted September 17, 2012 Looks like something out of Back to the Future II. Good luck, man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bruce Bennett Posted September 17, 2012 Members Share Posted September 17, 2012 don't waste your money. there are two basic types of patents. a patent for "design or process" and a "ultility" patent. what your attemping to do would fall under a "design" patent and thanks to good ole Ted MCarty ( president of Gibson back in the day) the USPTO no longer gives "design patents for electric guitars" because Ted successfully proved that an electric guitar could be made from any design no matter how radical. so your problem is. #1. you haven't done anything patentable #2. you have nothing on your drawing thats patentable under a ultility patent. which would be for a specific application, such as a new type of tremolo bridge or a new type of neck mounting system or a new method of manufacture. and While I have NOT read the entire thread, I will say that IF you do start this process. you will end up several thousand dollars poorer and will be left with some indefensable paperwork, Because even if you DO get granted a "Patent for electric guitar design " in the USA. no one here would be interested in copying you.. its the Chinese manufacturers you would have to worry about now, and they have almost zero patent laws and the few they do have .. they refuse to enforce. so its all and excercise in futility. So unless you have invented something that is as radical as the Parker fly.. then My suggestion is save your cash and just go over seas with it right off the bat. at least then you stand SOME chance of selling enough to eat on. also your design is too close to the Danelectro PRO to fly anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BryanMichael Posted September 17, 2012 Members Share Posted September 17, 2012 I think the design looks better as a bass. It does remind me of the Elektra basses Chris Squire used to play (I think he still has one that is one of his "main basses". Also, congratulations for pursuing this and trying to educate us in the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frets99 Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Here's the first prototype bass: I like it! Very very cool. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BeeTL Posted September 19, 2012 Author Members Share Posted September 19, 2012 I like it! Very very cool. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BeeTL Posted April 11, 2013 Author Members Share Posted April 11, 2013 I got the trademark on the bass headstock today: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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