Why Ganzo?

The Bowie design was not patented to my knowledge.

 

Well sure they rip of the patents and copy registered trademarks but surely they would draw the line at stealing from their customers; quelle horreur!

 

Examples: Kershaw Ken Onion speed-safe assisted opener. Benchmaed Axis lock.

 

Knife companies build their own versions influenced by a blade shape or a pattern. Ganzo builds exact replicas of said knives, and then put their stamp on it. Big difference. Look at your Firebird for instance, it's an exact copy of the BM940. It's a copy, which is a clone, which is frowned upon here. You've come to the wrong place to try and shill for Ganzo. They are probably despised by 99% of the members here.

 

Those examples do not support your position. Benchmade licensed the Spydie hole and Spyderco licensed the Emerson wave.

IIRC, Benchmade did not license it at first and did so after they were brought to court by Spyderco.

 

Screw China.

 

It may not have been copied by Ganzo, but it is an example of the expense that companies undertake to bring innovation to market.

 

"Had expired" is incorrect. I do believe it is currently expired, yet Ganzo was using it years before that happened.

 

Oh, it does!

 

A "Bowie knife" isn't even really a design or style, historically. It's just a bigass fighting knife. Most knives we recognize as a "bowie" bear little resemblance to to Jim Bowie's Sandbar knife.

You're trying to equate a broad ethnic/historical style to a company that deliberately and closely copy specific knives from specific brands. I'll do you the favor of not assuming you're so unintelligent that you don't recognize the difference, but rather you are desperately trying to justify supporting theft of intellectual property by making fallacious arguments. Ganzo has stolen both trademarked (Spyderhole) and patented (Benchmade AXIS lock) designs in addition to copying overall designs. The fact that China doesn't recognize patents and trademarks doesn't mean that it's OK, ethically speaking. New designs are being created constantly, yet Ganzo (and their ilk) deliberately copy specific designs to masquerade as better, more expensive knives for unscrupulous people like you.

 

Is this one of those threads that ends where, And just by happenstance Jim has a YouTube channel and a deal with Gearbest to showcase new products...? Or are you just recently retired and looking for a fight you won't win?

If its the second mission accomplished, you're now literally the punch line to a joke and will get no respect or even cordial treatment here.

 

Nothing unfair about it at all. Ganzo does exact replicas of other knives. Show me an exact replica that Spyderco, BM, ZT, CRK, or any other knife company, has produced.

 

Bottom line is you have added nothing to the debate. You should have just searched Ganzo for answers as to why your views are misguided. Would have saved everyone a whole lot of time.

 

I'm not sure what your purpose was in starting this thread.

 

He probably just copied it from someone else.