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| (...) This really pretty big news and seems to have not got much press around here. I stumbed across a link to this site being advertised on BrickShelf: (2 URLs) For those who like K'nex or thought it may have possibilities in the Lego world, now (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
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| (...) These sound like MB (URL) Command Ops> (Military) and Dragons (Fantasy) figs to me. I haven't seen studs on Bestlock figs' backs either. And I would heartily agree that Command Ops was just made for BrikWars. And and I can't say 'BrikWars' in (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
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| (...) Not sure when you mean--can you be more specific? I have Mega Bloks catalogs dating back to 1993, and they've never struck me as deceptively similar, except insofar as they feature pictures of the various sets arranged in a large display (...) (19 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
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| I'm heading off on a business trip in the morning, so I can only give this a real brief reply - (meaning it'll be just as long but I'll have put less thought into it -) (...) I have no objection to clone brands using the same metrics, especially (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
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| (...) I believe that the major similarity is scale. More on this below. <snip> (...) Surely you are not implying that it is just as easy to distinuish a red Mega Bloks 2x4 brick from a red LEGO 2x4 brick as it is a Honda from a Harley! (...) I don't (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
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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 (...) (19 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 (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 10-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
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| (...) (URL) Here's> a shot of three minifigs from the Just Kidz line of Cobi/Best-Lock stuff. And (URL) here's> a reverse angle of the guy on the far left. As you'll see, the leg-holes are square, in what I think is an inferior design; it takes more (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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