More On The 'Gibson-Suing-Everyone' Thing

[Craig]

You might recall our previous post about Gibson suing Activision over Guitar Hero...well, now they've gone even further into the deep end and are suing EA Games and a bunch of retailers.

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According to Gibson, Harmonix--which developed the multi-instrument music title Rock Band (PS2, PS3, X360) and created the Guitar Hero series--has violated a 1999 patent for technology that simulates a concert performance via pre-recorded audio and a musical instrument.

The guitar maker sued six retailers--GameStop, Amazon.com, Wal-Mart, Target, Toys "R" Us and Kmart--earlier this week for selling publisher Activision's Guitar Hero line of music games.

"Gibson Guitar had made good faith efforts to enter into a patent license agreement with the defendants in this case," stated Gibson. "The defendants have not responded in a timely manner with an intent to enter into negotiations for a patent license agreement.

"Gibson Guitar had no alternative but to bring the suit, and it will continue to protect its intellectual property rights against any and all infringing persons."

[K_Dog]

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has violated a 1999 patent for technology that simulates a concert performance via pre-recorded audio and a musical instrument.

That sounds to vague to stand up but who knows s

[Guntizzle]

didn't gibson license their guitars to guitar hero?
>_>

[surtrsflame]

of course theyre suing people, they're gonna need something to fall back on when kids start realizing that they're paying twice to three times as much as they should for an instrument that just isn't that great. Gibson is gonna end up like fender, a company that used to make great guitars, and now makes crap.