As space marines or SPACE MARINES or Space Marines are not unique spellings to GW but appear in sci fi literature, it can be invalidated under rule 1.

Rule 2) could be applied by anyone who used the words space marines

Also the trademark for goods is rather suspect as Asgard minitures sold space marines (re laserburn rules), Minifigs (not the Lego version but MINIATURE FIGURINES LTD.) sold space marines and both advertised in White Dwarf.

 I own some of the computer games.
And was planning on expanding my army as well as several other friends who were going to join.
This will give me something to consider before giving them any more money.  I have long felt that as far as “space marines” are concerned 40k is about the worst science fiction ever written. But the game was fun, so what did I care?   If they feel some how a “God Given right” to push anyone who uses the two words around. I will not be supporting their company further.

Some kind of crowd sourced legal fund that is tied to specific cases would do a HUGE amount to stop this kind of behavior. Is there one right now? If not who on here has the know how to set it up so we can save the creative properties we all love from Monsters like GW.

For what its worth GW is also a hugely biased company who almost exclusively only hires white males and only has one female employee of note among its 3000+ staff in a position higher than store manager or secretarial type positions. I am not positive but I actually think she works for an outside company and not GW specifically but that could be wrong. In a country with a large ethnic population you will be very hard pressed to find anything but white male faces in Nottingham. 

See if you can even get a job on the creative staff of this company if your not a White Male from  the UK? The only one who has is now gone. There have even been articles written in the European press about how misogynistic this company is. This is a international company who see’s fit to sue artist in other countries where their behavior as employers would never be tolerated.

This is a bad company who deserves to be taken down several notches….

Now i used to love warhammer like most teenage boys in england not into sports or videogames at the time, i was young and never knew a thing about them.  Now as an adult i cannot fathom how they are still around. They make all the worst stories about microsoft and sony seem like nothing.

Thing i always think of the most when i walk past one of their stores is the speech a friend of mine was told when he got employed at a games workshop for a while by the store manager: 

“all that matters is the sale, be the friend, be the gm, but always remember they are scum. and their wallets are filled with our money and its time to claim the debt”.

Its like the scientology before scientology in some respects i suppose. Whatever though, just dont give these douchebags money if you appreciate fantasy and sci-fi, because they exist only to kill it and have you pay them to do so.

I would gladly donate to a legal fund to teach these guys not to be such shitbags. The bad PR alone of people donating to the cause might be enough to convince them to back down.

And now you know!