the gnome prize

'Each year at the world's largest consumer goods trade fair show, called the Frankfurt Ambiente fair, black gnomes with gold-tinted noses are awarded to companies judged as making 'the most flagrant and unimaginative' design imitiations. The reason for the gnome prize is the history of sales lost to German producers of ceramic garden gnomes because of copy-cat Polish knockoffs. . . . The black gnome with the gold nose symbolizes profit through plagiarism. . . .'

'J.L. Zaichkowsky, The Psychology Behind Trademark Infringement and Counterfeiting, 2006.