'Mark, if the people who approved it weren't aware of that character or somehow missed the similarity, then they'd have to rely on someone else informing them of their mistake'.

Lol, you're kidding, right, how could anybody working in the field of 3D have possibly 'missed' the similarity?

Well, there are at least two top vendors who offered TR ripoffs and as it seems right now all of their TR-related products have been (temporarily?) removed from the market place. While one of them clearly exaggerated the plagiarism the other one managed to disguise it more cleverly. In the latter case it's just a fantastic SP3 morph in hot pants, harness and boots. All of these items can be acquired in real world which should make it difficult for any game publisher to enforce copyright claims.

Vendor number one? Well, that's another story, I guess.
However, at the moment nobody knows exactly what has happened and I really hope this issue turns out well for everybody.