Grimstonefire:
Am I the only one thinking it’s strange how there seems to be quite a few companies selling Chaos Dwarfs that are nothing to do with GW?
Incase we have GW lurkers here I won’t post links, but if you ebay Chaos Dwarfs you’ll get the idea.
Seems strange GW would pursue people that are vaguely infringing their IP by appearance, but not pursuing people who are directly infringing trademarks… Trademarks being much easier (and cheaper) to enforce.
Skink:
Well, most of the items sold on e-bay aren’t directly listed by companies (I suppose). For instance, you can find “Abyssal Dwarfs” by Mantic sold on e-bay as “Chaos Dwarfs”…
Grimstonefire:
That’s true.
A lot of the time I don’t bother digging deeper, if it says the company name and chaos dwarfs I guess I presume that’s what they’re sold as.
There are also companies selling chaos dwarfs in the names of the products though.
cornixt:
Is it a registered trademark? It’s not in their normal list, and that includes stuff like Marauder and Space Marine. I’m not sure if they can seek exclusive rights to the name, there was Chaos Everything at some point.
Grimstonefire:
I did some investigating a good few years back and GW had renewed the trademark on Chaos Dwarfs.
I actually looked it up to see whether it had lapsed, for other producers to step in. GW don’t list all the items they have a trademark on.
Willmark:
I’m not sure you can trademark a common word(s) like chaos dwarf".
Sort of like when TSR thought (orenously as it turns out) Nazi in relation to the Indiana Jones RPG). Which at the dawn of the commercial Internet in the early 90z caused no end of eye rolls from “They Sue Regularily”.
rpitts2004:
I'm not sure you can trademark a common word(s) like chaos dwarf".You really can't, it will get thrown because the name is to common.
Sort of like when TSR thought (orenously as it turns out) Nazi in relation to the Indiana Jones RPG). Which at the dawn of the commercial Internet in the early 90z caused no end of eye rolls from "They Sue Regularily".
Willmark
Willmark:
In the US most definately. In the UK probably not either. Point bring my phrasing is just that: phrasing niceties. Also just because you can’t? Never stopped GW from being Jackwagons before as we at CDO can attest to with past IP problems.
rpitts2004:
In the US most definately. In the UK probably not either. Point bring my phrasing is just that: phrasing niceties. Also just because you can't? Never stopped GW from being Jackwagons before as we at CDO can attest to with past IP problems.Thats just GW being GW.
Willmark