Starting November 1, the “30 Pedals in 30 Days” promotion/give-away begins and is just around the corner. The Tone King has been getting everything in place for a month long review of pedals. Wired with custom length cables, part of his setup system uses the Voodoo Labs pedal switcher connected to multiple pedals so that pedals can be selected individually during comparisons. TTK hand made nine patch cords using the Bullet Cable SLUG Straight Connectors and Bulk Cable in a video demo that shows “behind the scenes” for the promo event. Via email from TTK, “I put all of the cables together – every single one of them tested out 100%. Really is amazing!”

There are going to be some killer giveaways: The Official 30 Pedals in 30 Days Page

Back Story

The Tone King approached us in September about a third annual “30 Pedals in 30 Days” promotion and asked if we wanted to be a part of it. We asked him, “Have you used Bullet Cable?” He said, no, but his interest was sparked by gearmanndude, and others online who were talking about us. We told TTK that he would have to get behind Bullet Cable as a LOVER of the product before we would get behind a promotion. To be fair, we sent him a cable and told him that if it wasn’t everything that we promised, we could part ways as two respective professionals. However, if it rocked, like we promised it would, then he could let us know what our part in the promotion would be.

So TTK constructed his version of a ‘scientific’ method to do cable comparisons as a way, we think, to make an informative video and a reason to test the Coil. The review went as we expected (great) and to the surprise of TTK (“better than expected”) and he pledged his allegiance to Bullet Cable. So, we will be co-sponsoring the “30 Pedals in 30 Days” along with our good friends at ESP, Dean Guitars, Orange Amps and Dime Amplification. For the full list of pedals being reviewed, click here.

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The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office reached a decision on March 25, regarding a body-shape appeal involving Fender Musical Instruments vs.Stuart Spector Designs, U.S. Music Corporation, ESP Guitars, Sadowsky Guitars, Lakland Musical Instruments, Peavey Electronics, Warmoth Guitar Products, Schecter Guitar Research, Michael Tobias, and others.

The Board stated that, “Fender refers to the ‘iconic’ status of these [instrument] outlines in American popular culture; however, we must resolve a narrow issue: Do consumers associate these two-dimensional outlines, depicted in the drawings, as indicators of source? …We conclude that applicant [Fender] has not established acquired distinctiveness such that these two-dimensional outlines of guitar bodies, standing alone, serve to indicate source.”

After five years of hard-fought litigation, which included over twenty thousand pages of evidence demonstrating countless companies who have manufactured, marketed and sold guitars that use the body shapes that Fender sought to trademark, the TTAB concluded, “The evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that these configurations are so common in the industry that they cannot identify source. In fact, in the case of the [Stratocaster] body outline, this configuration is so common that it is depicted as a generic electric guitar in a dictionary.” The entire decision can be read at: http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91161403&pty=OPP&eno=246.