Games Workshop v Chapterhouse Studios - Post Trial Events

[chicop76]

My point is if Blizzard made Warhammer Fantasy instead of Warcraft and only made cosmetic differences than GW would be up their butts. Now GW dropped the ball with Blizzard and now losing out because of it.

I had no problem with CHS until GW told them to stol and next you km ow yoh start seeing space marine and other names being used. On the sird instead of high tech marine pads.

CHS decided to anger GW instead of playing nicely.

On the bright side companies like Zealot miniatures and Battld Wagon really bdenefit from CHS taking a stand.I don't have a problem with CHS making space marine pads. By doing so both companies benefit since you still buy GW producs to use what CHS is selling. My issue with them is to make money off GW and tell GW frick off. Fighting GW in court is the right thing for them to do, but the stuff they did in the months before they went to court was stupid.

[Rev. Tiberius Jackhammer]

Quick question about Pro Bonio stuff in general....

This is actually the first time I've commented on a spelling thing on the internet :P

Pro Bonio!

[Mr Mystery]

Oh it was quite deliberate!

Bonio...like him out of U2. Yeah. The pretentious, self righteous little...oh hello language filter!

[chicop76]

Oh I hate GW for crapping on retail stores, bit stores, etc. Reminds me of Paladium Books, but worst.

[Deadlift]

I dislike CH due to the shonky nature of his sculpts, and the dude's general 'my poop don't stink' attitude, as demonstrated on Dakkadakka on numerous occasions....

See I swing the other way here, whilst I don't like the sculpts that CH have put out much and personally think they shouldn't have gone as far as they did with copying GWs IP, I do have respect for the chap from CH who has posted here on occasion. To be fair at least he has tried communicating with us as the online community which as we know GW will not. I love GWs products for the most part though and no amount of 3rd party producers can convince me they produce better models than GW. They just don't.

I would like to know though just how much (if any) effect this case has had on GWs release schedule. It's sure as hell been releasing stuff thick and fast in the last 12 months and if this is a partial result of this case then us as the consumers have benefitted greatly.

[AirHorse]

I would like to know though just how much (if any) effect this case has had on GWs release schedule. It's sure as hell been releasing stuff thick and fast in the last 12 months and if this is a partial result of this case then us as the consumers have benefitted greatly.

Totally agree with this! Regardless of the fact that I think GW should be allowed to protect their IP, I think we can all agree that the recent releases have been brilliant, and that surely has to have been a result of this case!

[Mr Mystery]

If indeed it has been an influence (far as I'm aware, it's anecodtal evidence both ways on this one!)

[Battleworthy Arts]

As much as I like to see GW get a lesson handed to them... Im not sure I like this one. I don't like the precedent it sets, and Chapterhouse definitely qualifies as "cheap knock-off" stuff.

[weeble1000]

Hold the phone. There's a new surprise.

[url=http://www.wilmerhale.com/don_steinberg/]Donald R. Steinberg[/url] is on the case.

Donald Steinberg is the chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property Department, a member of the firm’s Management Committee, and a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group and FinTech Group. He joined the firm in 1994.

This is no joke. Donald Steinberg being on the case is a really big deal. [url=http://www.law360.com/articles/62659/ip-practice-wilmerhale-]Here is a Law 360 article about Don[/url]. [url=http://www.law360.com/articles/102896/q-a-with-wilmerhale-s-donald-steinberg]And Here is another one[/url] that is a Q&A with him.

The first article says of the Broadcom v Qualcom litigation "The WilmerHale team working the case was led by William Lee, Donald Steinberg and others, and in February, the jury returned a verdict of non-infringement on all claims."

William F. Lee is WilmerHale's managing partner and a veritable legend in IP litigation. When I mentioned that WilmerHale represented Apple, it was Mr. Lee who was on the case.

This is really big news. Really big. This case had profile before, but I think it is about to become high profile in mainstream IP litigation.

[Denzark]

Unless you have some pornographic attraction and serious fanboi level knowledge of the lawyers of the IP world, the fact that CHS has managed to retain Caspar D. Kugelwanger III as counsel, isn't going to mean that much. It is reasonable to assume the multi-million pound company wouldn't hire any geek off the street, so the fact some internet lawyer like weeby tries to tell us that CHS new lawyers has made the legal situation the equivalent of like putting Mike Tyson in the ring with Troy Verne, is fairly irrelevant to the common man.