Hello dear car community As a newcomer I have a question. I recently bought my personal dream car a BMW 7er xDrive year 2018 (G11). Unfortunately I don’t like the rims so much about the car and I looked around for new ones. Unfortunately I like many „third-party rims from the design not but unfortunately an original set of BMW rims costs around the 3000€. Now to my question, there are serious third-party rims that have the same design as original BMW rims? Unfortunately, I only find my own design spoken of rim manufacturers but also no real “design approximations” to original rims. Are there possibly patents on such designs? If yes, to what extent can one patent such designs? I mean when I make a spoke by 1cm thicker one can hardly speak of a copy… or? As I said, I am new in the “Auto Welt” and wanted to ask you. As an example I have the 646 spoke rims of bmw I would be happy about any help dear greetings