Luo is a well known recaster that has now gone on to file Trademarking for a long list of legitimate companies - ranging from huge, like Fairyland, to individual artists. If he succeeds, the companies will have to pay a fee to him to sell their products with their name and logo. Even if a company was going to change their name and logo, they would have to pay him a fee in order to sell any merchandise they are sitting on. This is going to make it hard and discouraging for companies to continue making dolls. If they choose to no longer make dolls, there will be no new sculpts, nor will you be able to buy a brand new doll. If there are no more new sculpts, there will be nothing new to recast either (for those who collect recasts). Because all dolls would then be limited edition, second hand prices can and will increase as well, with no real limit at to what. If no ones making dolls, the ones around can eventually deteriorate. Also, forget being able to buy replacement parts if something happens to break on your dolls. This could legitimately lead to the end of the hobby, not only making it so much smaller and harder and more expensive than it already is.
