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What's the difference between a Vanguard and an Artist with P90s?


Kalessin

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From what I recall:

Vanguard = Mostly Silver Metallic, all Mahogany with P-90s.  Introduced in late 1998.

25th Anniversary = Cherry Transparent, all Mahogany with Humbuckers.  Introduced in late 1998.

Artist Mahogany - Replaced the 25th Anniversary Model by 2000.

Artist Mahogany P-90 - replaced the Vanguard by 2000 after the name issue.  The Silver finish was discontinued in favor of Cherry Transparent.

Korina versions also became available by the early 2000s as "Artist Korina", or "Korina Artist P-90".

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This whole idea of trademarking a word never made any sense to me.
Robin Guitars ran into a similar situation years ago when they had to rename the Wrangler to the Rawhide (which is a fucking terrible name).
Apparently Wrangler Jeans had a problem with the name of this particular Robin model and sent a C&D. 
So, they had a problem with a guitar called a Wrangler, but apparently not a Jeep named Wrangler.

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10 hours ago, kizanski said:

This whole idea of trademarking a word never made any sense to me.
Robin Guitars ran into a similar situation years ago when they had to rename the Wrangler to the Rawhide (which is a fucking terrible name).
Apparently Wrangler Jeans had a problem with the name of this particular Robin model and sent a C&D. 
So, they had a problem with a guitar called a Wrangler, but apparently not a Jeep named Wrangler.

Or Jeep was big enough to afford lawyers. 

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5 hours ago, Kalessin said:

Or Jeep was big enough to afford lawyers. 

Certainly, but it still doesn't make sense.  

"Wrangler" isn't a word which the jeans company owns.  Same as "Vanguard."

I could see if it was a made-up name, like "Oreo."   You can’t go naming your new guitar model the Oreo without expecting some heat, but a word which already exists and has a definition outside of a car or jeans brand should be fair game.   

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@kizanskiIt gets pretty stupid when the same trademark is claimed across completely different kinds of product (jeans, cars, guitars), or when it just comes down to who's able or willing to spend more on lawyers. But the general principle that anyone, large or small, can invest in building a reputation for their products and not have someone else interfere with that, well that seems sensible and worthwhile. Of course people did eventually start using made up nonsense words liek Verizon and Accenture. But that doesn't create much of a brand. 

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Just now, Kalessin said:

@kizanskiIt gets pretty stupid when the same trademark is claimed across completely different kinds of product (jeans, cars, guitars), or when it just comes down to who's able or willing to spend more on lawyers. But the general principle that anyone, large or small, can invest in building a reputation for their products and not have someone else interfere with that, well that seems sensible and worthwhile. Of course people did eventually start using made up nonsense words liek Verizon and Accenture. But that doesn't create much of a brand. 

Right.  And you would think that the jeans company would be more threatened by a popular car brand using its name, vs. a guitar company nobody ever heard of.
In other words, you wouldn't want to waste your money going up against a major car manufacturer (a battle which you are surely out-gunned, even if you are in the right), but then why waste your money fighting a guitar company making a couple of hundred guitars a year? 
Then as if it wasn't already nonsensical, neither of these companies make jeans, so why should they care?

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