5th Circuit Orders New Trial In Trademark Dispute Over Guitar Shapes

(July 9, 2024, 1:17 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on July 8 held that a Texas federal judge abused his discretion in a trademark infringement dispute between electric guitar manufacturers by excluding decades of evidence regarding third-party use of the trademarks, ordering a new trial in the case....