Viacom to a California judge: Put down that SpongeBob SquarePants Ukulele! Last week, Viacom sought to dismiss a lawsuit that was brought in late December by Gibson Guitar Corp., which asserted ...

There are plenty of stringed instruments out there -- guitars, banjos, zithers, harps, ukuleles, mandolins. But, as St. Louis musician Bryan Ranney warns, they're not ...

Viacom, represented by David Grossman at Loeb & Loeb, adds that its only connection here is licensing the SpongeBob trademarks and that it “has nothing to do with the Ukulele’s body shape.” ...