Action PlagiariusNegative prize 'Plagiarius' awarded in 2023
On February 3, 2023, the Plagiarius campaign awarded the dreaded 'Plagiarius' negative prize to manufacturers and retailers of particularly brazen counterfeits and fakes for the 47th time.
The special 'Laziest serial offender' award goes to the company Fath from Spalt, which has plagiarized products from the 'D30 LPS' series (pull-out) and a wide variety of components (brackets, connectors, etc.) from item Industrietechnik, Solingen. As a supplier of modular systems for industrial applications, item has set various market standards that others follow. While item and many of its competitors inspire each other and have all developed their own design language and typical individual design features, Fath's range has for years included numerous products that look confusingly similar to item products. A further development, individual characteristics or even an innovation? Not recognizable.