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Subject: 
Lego not an original idea?
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Date: 
Sun, 17 Dec 2000 11:31:48 GMT
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Apparently Lego has taken Australian (and other) companies to court over their
product. Whilst they themsleves may be illegitimate themselves.

http://www.best-lock.com/new/page.html

I personally don't care too much for this article. Especially as it was on the
website of a competitor to Lego.

Santosh



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  Re: Lego not an original idea?
 
(...) Well, according to the article itself, they paid for the idea in a settlement - so if they weren't legit at first, they certainly are now. As for the companies - well, some of them at least are producing "copy" LEGO sets - with the same (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
  Re: Lego not an original idea?
 
To me that whole article is two things: 1) Badly Formatted HTML and hard to read 2) Sour Grapes. "Santosh Bhat" <santob@ihug.com.au> wrote in message news:G5pMp0.J59@lugnet.com... (...) their (...) the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
  Re: Lego not an original idea?
 
Santosh Bhat wrote in message ... (...) their (...) I do have one question relating to this. Our son is getting a Rokenbok set for Christmas which is a RC type building set. The ELEVATED road plates are Lego compatible (Mom has her eyes on these). (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
  Re: Lego not an original idea?
 
(...) According to the article they also have cases in Turkey. I think there is much more useful things to make for Turkish market than suing copy makers. I don't know what the heck with TLC's presence in Turkey, but even TRUs here stopped selling (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)

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