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Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general
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Wed, 7 Jul 1999 00:33:25 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
Todd Lehman wrote:
In lugnet.admin.database, Todd Lehman writes:
Gary, what do you think of the name "Brictionary"?
Darnit, I can't spell today.  :-)  That should be "Bricktionary."

Just my .02 Sterling:

This word might already be copyrighted and / or trademarked.  How cheap
is a copyright search?

Words can't be copyrighted (well, maybe supercalifrigilisticexpealidocious
can be :-) but trademark searches are free at the USPTO (but they're delayed
by 2 months so that they can charge fees for up-to-date searches).  USPTO
search of their database up through 1 May 99 turns up zilch.

Doesn't appear to be in use currently anywhere on the net findable by any
of the major search engines (of course you never know).  AltaVista turned
this up...

   http://www.zebra.net/~kburroughs/bricktionary.htm

...but that wouldn't count as a problematic collision because it has nothing
to do with toys or bricks.

--Todd



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(...) Just my .02 Sterling: This word might already be copyrighted and / or trademarked. How cheap is a copyright search? Also -- I kinda prefer the one without the "k". I guess it boosts our class if we're building with fancy Lego "bric"s rather (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

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