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Re: First draft of the Lego-Modular Train layout standards posted..
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Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:34:53 GMT
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If they come to me and tell me that I can't call my Lego train layout that
has about a half-million of their bricks in it and costs tens of thousands
of dollars a Lego-modular layout, I will retort that they would prefer it to
a Megablock-modular layout.  Their protect the brand name crusade is getting
silly in some instances.  God forbid that people will mistake Suzanne's
Legopolis site as an official Lego site - it would be much better to have it
featuring porn.

Mike

Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:38E35391.6FBE@mindspring.com...
Mike Poindexter wrote:

The preliminary page for Lego-modular standards is up at:
http://www.sirius.com/~latha/lego/modules/standards.htm

Looks good, but one thing which just struck me is TLC's protectiveness
of it's trademarks. We probably should either get permission to name the
standard LEGO-Modular, or find a different name (but maybe I'm all wet).

--
Frank Filz

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(...) I'm certainly not up on all the intricacies of trademark law, but I would think that there is a difference between what you use to describe your layout, and the name applied to a published standard. I'm just suggesting that this issue be (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)

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(...) of it's trademarks. We probably should either get permission to name the standard LEGO-Modular, or find a different name (but maybe I'm all wet). (24 years ago, 30-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)

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