Selling Design from Another Watchface with Logo

Hi Guys, is there any way to remove or flag some apps on Connect IQ store as fraud because I noticed that one developer is selling my GearMin 2.0 design with Logo, users are thinking that I created the watchface, the developer of said GearMin 2.0 copycat created 3 watchfaces and sellling them on higher price with logo. It took me 3 months to create GearMin 2.0 and in an instant another developer copied it then sell it on higher price. I mean it is ok to copy some features of the watchface but it seems like he copied all the features and even the settings.  The screenshots he took to display on the store might not be perfectly the same maybe to avoid suspicion but when you install it you will feel that you are using GearMin 20. See the links below and images:

GearMin 2.0 Original...

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/c2b48992-9d1b-44b5-9a44-cff1c8ffa577

Replica from bine8x8...

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/36ca76ce-f364-447f-8036-00c377bc90b6

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/37abaa32-a85c-4ca1-9cd9-a08a5cf668ff

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/472175e5-15df-4b8f-a734-cfb84ddab75f

  • On the right side of the web page for an app right under "contact developer" is "flag as inappropriate".  I guess I'd try that, but I'm not sure there's much you can do..

  • Thanks Jim for the tip, it says there that there will be review after flagging or reporting, unsure what will happen and maybe I will just wait for the result. I am currently making variants of GearMin 2.0 but I think I will hold it for now for release until this case has result. Thanks again :)

  • Probably nothing will happen.  Stuff has been cloned in the store since the app store began.  The exception is if you clone a brand name WF, where the copyright/trademark holder can request that something be taken down.  I've seen cases of that over the years.

    Some folks kind of open themselves up to clones by putting projects on github, and a minor chance it's a whole new app.

  • Yes, I thought so too.. I may already have an idea actually on who initiated or who did this cloning because 2 months ago, one user has requested to create a variant of GearMIn 2.0 with a logo but I never received the payment. See the screenshot of my GearMin 2.0 - A1 (100% copycat of replicas with logo). 

  • It sucks the life out of you when you do the work, then have it either taken away from you.

  • I made the "Logos" to order according to the customer's sample. Didn't use the _MASHAKE_ code in any way. I chose all the fonts on my own according to the sample and based on my taste. Apparently the person who ordered me also ordered the same _MASHAKE_ at the same time, but was not satisfied with the deadline. In addition, there are many examples when they develop and sell replicas of famous branded dials, and even replicas of Garmin itself, improving and supplementing them with new functions. And this is not _MASHAKE_ but I came up with the idea of ​​making replaceable logos. Besides - I don't sell my products, I just ask for donations for my work - after all, I am wasting time and applying my abilities.

  • So creating 3 watchfaces with GearMin 2.0 layout is not copying as your defense?, nice defense though. I already gave the Guy the GearMin 2.0 - A1 and released it on the store, I just recently removed because after a month he didn't even gave me a single penny. It is like you already removed the payment amount per customized logo, if I do remember correctly you are charging 7 euro per customized logo. Not sure actually if you saying the truth here, no one will know, maybe you are the same Guys who asked me to create GearMin 2.0 - A1 and just using this excuse right now to replicate GearMin 2.0, no one will know actually. I have never seen you released the A1 logo and it is suspicious for me. Anyway, it is not going anywhere because its like you are enjoying it. Let's just keep moving forward then...

  • If you had completed the work taken on time, I would not have received this order. Nobody canceled the competition. In addition (I later, when I already made it, I saw your version) you made a sample not for the customer's watch model - your inattention or inability to work, so the customer could not evaluate your version. I worked quickly, diligently (but I didn’t imagine that you are doing the same, if I knew I would probably refuse the order - you are the author of this wonderful design). And I slightly improved it for my taste - the location of the icon on the right, the C or F sign next to the temperature, added the phases of the moon. Made the date and weather fields customizable. I didn't stupidly repeat your watch face - I put a piece of myself into it, and I really like it. I don't consider myself a thief - I develop and and try to make things better.

  • As for another (not A1) logo in the store - the customer wanted the "A1" logo to be available to him by a special code. Enter 96720 into "Logos" and you will see that I am not cheating.