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| (...) There may be another variable at play in those northern European cases; as far as I'm aware, LEGO maintains a de facto stranglehold on many of the markets there, so competitor brands are denied entry altogether. It seems that LEGO has secured (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
| | |  | | Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
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| (...) It's a little misleading to say their arguments have 'failed' - the same arguments that got shot down in Mega Bloks' Canadian home court are still doing just fine in the courts of northern Europe. I think the big loss in Germany is going to be (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| (...) That's an interesting argument--do you have a citation? I ask because I believe that the patent on the minifig design has expired, and previous arguments by LEGO re: the "trademark" status of their pieces have failed. The majority of rulings (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| (...) It's about trademark rather than copyright - the minifig is legally recognized to represent the Lego company, it's not just one of their designs or intellectual properties. From a legal standpoint, using the minifig is equivalent to using the (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| (URL) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.test, FTX)
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| test (20 years ago, 8-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
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| a test vvv daaa...aaah de n6nz (20 years ago, 6-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
| | |  | | Re: Test
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| (...) K, maybe not like that one, but that was the fastest I have seen the server respond to a post in a very long time (under 2 mississippi's) (20 years ago, 5-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
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| (...) K, maybe not like that one, but that was the fastest I have seen the server respond to a post in a very long time (under 2 mississippi's) (20 years ago, 5-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
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| (...) double clicking does not cause it, but clicking post a second time after the http post is complete seems to make the duplicate posts creatable on demand, just like this one. Jude (20 years ago, 5-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
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