 | | Lego vs. Tyco: Legal Battle of the Clones —Gerhard R. Istok
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| | | I just came across this on the interenet. It was a legal battle between TLG and Tyco Industries, which produced (up until about a decade or so age) the best Lego clones ever. (URL) looks like TLG lost, case dismissed. Gary Istok (19 years ago, 5-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Lego vs. Tyco: Legal Battle of the Clones —Jim Hughes
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| | | | (...) Gary: This court case was remarkable for GKCs testimony that the original Lego block was in fact a copy of the Kiddicraft block. There is a summary (which is VERY biased) on the Best-Lock site: (URL) the expiration of Lego's major patents they (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego vs. Tyco: Legal Battle of the Clones —Eric Strand
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| | | | (...) Geoff Lilleker also has some speculation about Lego purchasing the rights from Kiddicraft. Seems a little less biased but I'm not sure what is true. Select Kiddicraft or Lego from this page: (URL) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego vs. Tyco: Legal Battle of the Clones —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | (...) I once found a book about Lego at my local library, see my old message: (URL) and Godtfred Kirk Christiansen' (actually in Swedish), ISBN 91-972715-8-6] Stated as facts in this book are: 1947 - LEGO Billund A/S buys it's first injection mold (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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