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

and he set to work adding curves to the Explorer's template. It was Gibson's first neck-through design, with reverse headstocks and banjo-style tuners, key features of the early designs.

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