To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.generalOpen lugnet.general in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 General / 5741
5740  |  5742
Subject: 
Re: 8 millimeters or 5/16 inches? (was Re: Scales (Was: New Lego page!)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.faq
Date: 
Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:25:53 GMT
Reply-To: 
lpieniazek@noveraNOSPAM.com
Viewed: 
2921 times
  
Fredrik Glöckner wrote:

"Eric Brok" <brok@fcjsvc.hvu.nl> writes:

[1] Did you realize, the famousTLG brick patent concerned only *the tube
connectors* under the brick as an *improvement* to the existing brick, not
changing the brick idea, the studs or the dimensions.

Does this imply that someone else patented the _original_ brick design,
without the tubes?  If so, who did?

Some english company, which TLG bought the original patent from.

Someone has a whole website about this, seemed to be fairly miffed about
it, and would periodically post the URL to it on RTL... I stopped
reading RTL much so can't say if that's still happening but if you
dejanewsed for truth and LEGO in the same append you might find it.


Fredrik

--
Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com  http://my.voyager.net/lar
- - - Web Application Integration! http://www.novera.com
fund Lugnet(tm): http://www.ebates.com/ Member ref: lar, 1/2 $$ to
lugnet.

NOTE: I have left CTP, effective 18 June 99, and my CTP email
will not work after then. Please switch to my Novera ID.



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: 8 millimeters or 5/16 inches? (was Re: Scales (Was: New Lego page!)
 
(...) Thanks for the info. I don't care enough about this to look it up, though. What's important is that LEGO makes the best bricks. :-) I'm pretty much a pragmatist in this matter. Fredrik (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: 8 millimeters or 5/16 inches? (was Re: Scales (Was: New Lego page!)
 
(...) Does this imply that someone else patented the _original_ brick design, without the tubes? If so, who did? Fredrik (25 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)

24 Messages in This Thread:










Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR