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Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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Date: 
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:26:14 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, David Laswell wrote:
   In lugnet.mediawatch, Dave Schuler wrote:
   I suggest that LEGO design a new brick to achieve the same “technical solution.”

Why should they? There are plenty of other companies that have already done so. You’ve got K’Nex, Lincoln Logs, Erector, and several other construction toy systems that have no resemblance to LEGO bricks, proving that you don’t need to blatantly rip off the design to achieve a similar “technical solution”.

The duplication of designs not protected by patent is not “ripping off.”

   The only legitimate reason for copying the LEGO design is so you can horn in on their market with a product that looks like their own and is more or less compatible with it as well.

But it’s not “their” market, and it hasn’t been “their” market since the patent expired. What we’ve seen for several decades is competitor brands moving into the market, not into “LEGO’s” market.

Dave!



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(...) But it is their system. What the clones should be doing is creating unique bricks that work within the LEGO system, not recreating them. JOHN (15 years ago, 18-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)

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(...) Why should they? There are plenty of other companies that have already done so. You've got K'Nex, Lincoln Logs, Erector, and several other construction toy systems that have no resemblance to LEGO bricks, proving that you don't need to (...) (15 years ago, 17-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)

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