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(...) Or a Dumpster made by um, uh.... somebody other than Toccoa Metal Technologies. Trademark dilution at work! (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yah! And -- bing! -- now I think I *finally* understand the subtle point that TLG legal counsel was trying to explain to me when they asked me to change the name of my "Fibblesnork LEGO Backgrounds" page[1]: it shows pictures of 2x2 LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish)
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(...) A quandry for marketing, I'm sure. Legal keeps saying "No, Foobrand does not equal barproduct!", while the advertising folks are trying to convince people exactly the opposite. (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Leading to meetings out of which come concepts like "Dove is not soap", I'm sure. (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Mom, can I play with my LEGO brand plastic automatic binding bricks....PLEASE! (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: LEGO trademark (was: Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...[lego phone])
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(...) Yep, that's pretty much what they ask you to say. You can shorten it to just "LEGO bricks", if you want. <URL:(URL), of course. Of course, if you're polite about it, as a non-lawyer and non-Lego-employee, I advocate calling the product "Lego" (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: LEGO trademark (was: Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...[lego phone])
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(...) What about LUGnet? Posts are archived essentially forever, after all. (And I suspect that even if Todd's were to suddenly go offline, they could be pieced together fromthe archives in various formats on people's newsreaders/email clients..) (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: LEGO trademark (was: Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...[lego phone])
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(...) Archived forever != formal. It's all grey area ('cept when you're selling stuff), so if you don't feel comfortable using Lego as a noun here, by all means don't. (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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