lawsuit on gototoolz mics

They seem guilty of selling a common shape microphone with a rectangular badge, but in quantity. Their other ‘crime’ is using numbers as part of the model, as in GTZ-87, or 103. They are not “passing off”, a UK term for making people think they are buying an original. Their website to my non-legal trained brain just says, cheaper, Neumann shape mics. I see nothing that suggests they are counterfeits. My guess is Neumann have determined they are well resourced, so have a good chance of using trademark infringement to grab their cash and shut them down. They cannot do this for an invisible factory in China, but they can work in the States. The shape, the numbering, the label design. They could have a case.
 
yes I thought the same, its a US thing, so not applicable to China or other non US "invisible" factory's.
A lot of people wouldn't want to swipe their credit card in a blackmarket site and enter the dark web with their personal info, so I wonder how big a loss is TEMU or ALIBABLE or GoTOToolz taking as a percentage?

as for copy laws, Fender had the headstock they could protect and name.not much else.
at INTEL vs AMD, early 90's the US case said INTEL couldn't own numbers, so AMD was allowed to copy 386,486, 586....so at 586, INTEL changed to PENTIUM and it dropped the number-naming and AMD couldn't sell a PENTIUM named chip, but they could sell a 586.

So Im thinking the size of the body isn't it but WARM got hit for the Headbasket shape...so they came out with the Warm 87 r2 with the funny looking Headbasket.
The GoToToolz label being a very close copy of Neumann could be a lawsuit reason, but I don't think a company can own 87 or 47 or 57 or 58...but I could be wrong. If that's true all the Cloner's would have to remove 87, 47,67 from their mic line.

GoToToolz looks like they lost and had to pay $250,000, but it seems the case isn't over, and the court declined Neumann on some items.

GoToToolz is still online and selling Neumann style/ "lets be honest" Neumann copy's...lol
but how is it different than all the others selling Neumann "inspired" mics?

Klaus in an interview- said Sennheiser is a $3 billion dollar company, so they have muscle to go to court.
Neumann seems similar to Fender with protection for the headbasket and headstock seems legally protectable. But then the U47FET and U47 seem open to copying while the U87 Headbasket isn't?
 
I remember when Warm Audio changed the shape of their WA87 with their R2 version so that it didn't look so similar to a U87. GoToToolz doesn't seem to be a bigger outfit than Warm. What about Stam or Peluso? The Stam 87i has the same shape as a U87ai, and they even use a similar logo. Peluso don't use the logo, but the mics look very much like a Neumann. They would be much more of a competitor to Neumann that GoToToolz.

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weird, the U67 and 87 the same physical size and headbasket shape and the Stam and Peluso seem identical, so why did Warm headbasketr get hit.
I think Rodes NT2 also was a Headbasket issue.

maybe they are watching Peluso and Stam and BeesBeez and all the mic makers?
 

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