What to do when competitor copies your app (exact design)
gojomo: Did they take your source code? That'd be a clear copyright case.Mimicking your look and feel closely but not exactly is a much murkier case. Lifting a few graphics or paragraphs is technically a copyright violation but what are your damages?You do not have to enforce your copyrights to retain them; that's trademarks. If they were using your company or product names in a manner that caused confusion among customers, you'd have a trademark case. (If they mimicked the distinctive appearance of your product so much that it caused confusion, there could be a 'trade dress' trademark case. But as elegant as your interface looks, I think you'd have a hard time proving customers look at it and think 'Ronin'.)I think your best strategy is to outcompete them as a more reliable, innovative, above-board app. That might entail completely ignoring them, or (if you have excellent evidence they simply copied you with little original development), making the case that they are a cheap knockoff in relevant forums, just so that any customer comparing you both knows the story.