Comments on: “Music Simulation” Patent Unsuccessful, Gibson Mucks Up Own Case

By: KeyOfGrey

KeyOfGrey — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:15:39 +0000

I like their guitars, hate their management. If my Les Paul and SG didn’t sound so fantastic, I’d be embarrassed to own them.

By: Polite

Polite — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:21:35 +0000

Hilarious when you consider that the original guitar hero guitars were gibson licensed SGs.

What idiots. I wish more patient trolling would turn out like this. There seems to be quite a large amount of companies crawling out of the woodwork and suing gaming companies for vague patients these days.

By: AL:

AL: — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:37:59 +0000

I thought Yamaha bought Sequential Circuits?

By: Woody Aki

Woody Aki — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:23:52 +0000

I love Gibson guitars and I detest what Guitar Hero stands for, but I have had absolute contempt for the company for years. They have the Midas touch in reverse – everything they touch turns to s**t. Examples? Many…Tobias, Steinberger, Trace Elliot, Oberheim and Sequential Circuits happen to be the saddest. And Lord forbid if you’re a Gibson dealer outside of the USA. Too many stories to tell, but several trips to NAMM and Muzikmesse later, they come across as the the most condescending bunch of Republicans on a dominion powertrip you’re ever likely to meet.

Stick to buying second-hand Gibson products, and bring these morons down a peg further than they’ve just been!

By: AL:

AL: — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:10:54 +0000

It’s nice to know lawyers won’t be affected by the economic downturn, not as long as there are companies as clearly insane as Gibson willing to fund nuisance lawsuits.

By: JonYo

JonYo — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:42:59 +0000

I’m one of the people who got canned from Opcode back in the 90s when Gibson bought the company despite having no idea what to do with it. They did the same thing to Trace Elliot amps, and to a certain extent, Oberheim. Opcode went poof, dissolved, SVP abandoned. Support for their existing MIDI interface hardware went poof too, which doesn’t even seem legal. Also, our Opcode bosses and Gibson had lots of lawsuit-y stuff immediately after the acquisition. The guy that ran Gibson, and still runs it I think, Henry something, seemed like a real megalomaniac.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:24:56 +0000

Yup, definitely a Fender in the image. I was looking for a clown playing a Gibson, which I thought would have been more appropriate, but that only existed in my mind. I figured a Bento Box lunch of a guitar could stand in for “virtual.”

It’s apparently made of cheese and bamboo shoots by a girl for her boyfriend. And it’s, well, a lot cooler than this story is, I have to admit!

By: SoundDesignTutorials

SoundDesignTutorials — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:46:39 +0000

What a lame lawsuit to begin with. I’ve been following the rumblings on this one for quite a while and it’s nice to see a just result.

By: lilith

lilith — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:36:23 +0000

oh its rice… and, cheese or something, what the hell is that guitar made of?

By: lilith

lilith — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:34:27 +0000

Gibson is an evil company by all accounts, as much as I love SGs and Thunderbirds, I’d pause before buying one of them. and then buy a Fender or Ibanez instead.

Gibson also bought and killed Oberheim, the bastards!

If I understand it correctly, you cannot trademark an electric guitar shape, otherwise Gibson would have already stopped all those other over 9000 companies making Flying V’s. But you can stop someone from copying your headstock shape, this was the basis of Gibson’s suit against Ibanez in the 70’s.

Also that is obviously a Fender Stratocaster on that cake.