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Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general
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Date:
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Fri, 6 Aug 2004 15:41:46 GMT
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> Since TLC only owned the patent on the fully tubed variety, and none of those
> clones seems to use a perfectly identical interior design, I'm betting they were
> all trying to skirt around the patent by using slightly different designs.
Actually, the original 'tubes patent' explicitly included substituted shapes for
the tubes, such as crosses.
TLG patents even what they will *not* produce, and in this case quite
understandably.
Eric Brok
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