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Lexology frames Fender’s letters as a cease-and-desist tsunami in the guitar industry

Lexology covered Fender’s reliance on the Düsseldorf default judgment and described the resulting enforcement campaign as a cease-and-desist wave across the guitar industry, adding another legal-industry source outside the usual guitar press cycle.

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This note is one entry in the AltGuitar Legal Timeline — a chronological record of the Fender-style guitar-shape dispute, court rulings, cease-and-desist reports and market reactions. See the full timeline for the surrounding context.

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