A second jury has found Dean Guitars guilty of trademark infringement of Gibson’s guitar designs. But the verdict is not a ...

In a ongoing saga of intellectual property disputes, a jury found Armadillo, the parent company of Dean Guitars, guilty of trademark infringement and counterfeiting of Gibson’s guitar designs. This ...

Gibson successfully filed against Dean’s use of V, Z, and SG-style guitars in 2022, and the courts have reached the same ...

For this new 2025 model, Gibson has modified the original “Platypus” headstock so that there’s a straight string pull and ... with its construction owing more to the Non-Reverse Firebird – and SG – in ...

For this new 2025 model, Gibson has modified the original “Platypus” headstock so that there ... more to the Non-Reverse Firebird – and SG – in that respect. But the recipe is pretty ...

It claimed that Dean's use of Flying V, Explorer, and SG guitar shapes infringed ... it successfully arguing that the body and headstock shapes Gibson claims it owns should be deemed generic.