Reply To: GW Takes Ghamak To Court!

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The way this typically works is if you show people a picture of the original and the copy next to each other if people who know nothing about the subject would struggle to tell them part you have a case.

Just look at the model above. Its the same scale / size as the GW figure, you have the have design armour, chain swords, halo around the helmet, skull on the knee, eagal on the chest plate, helmet shape and design, power glove weapon etc etc. That is not everything I could list on this model. Even the damn base they are on is a GW necromuda one.

You can get away with one or two features the same by “accident” in a mini design but to have 40 odd features the same that is never going to hold up in any court. If you showed that picture to anyone they would say it was a 40k space marine.

Look at the Dark Angel model Nathaniel from him which is clearly a copy of Sammael 40k model. Your telling me you dont think that is anything other than a complete rip from GW trying to be passed off as the original GW one ?

Look at his Vengeful Angels range and tell me you could not name every single dark angels model it is based on ?

Not just 40k. Look at the War Altar of Grimwald. I mean come on are you telling me you dont know what that is the instance you look at ?

He has based his business on ripping off another company. It is not legal. You cannot in law do that and expect to get away with it. It is as the law defines as unfair competition. It is clearly what he is doing on a massive scale.

Passing off: Misrepresenting one’s goods or services as being those of another business to take advantage of their reputation and goodwill.

They have gone after him because it is not just one or two models which are close it is 100’s of figures purely designed to replicate the GW models. No effprt to hide it in fact he has on purpose even named to people know what it is.

He has zero defence. If this goes to court the GW lawyers will rip him apart model by model pointing out all the elements which are the same. It is endless. I would not know how on earth he could construct even a basic defence to claim he was not on purpose trying to rip them off.

You can sail close to the wind, you can do models like GW which have some fantasy or historic elements and it is not a problem. When it is as clear as day your models are trying to rip off GW the way he has you cannot claim any defence at all.