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Re: LEGO trademark (was: Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...[lego phone])
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 13:23:58 GMT
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 02:29:16 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
wrote:

> Of course, if you're polite about it, as a non-lawyer and non-Lego-employee,
> I advocate calling the product "Lego" and (gasp!) "Legos" in casual
> conversation. (Out of politeness, it's not good to do this in more permanent
> locations, like user group propaganda or on web pages.)

What about LUGnet? Posts are archived essentially forever, after all.
(And I suspect that even if Todd's were to suddenly go offline, they
could be pieced together fromthe archives in various formats on
people's newsreaders/email clients..)

Jasper



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  Re: LEGO trademark (was: Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...[lego phone])
 
(...) Archived forever != formal. It's all grey area ('cept when you're selling stuff), so if you don't feel comfortable using Lego as a noun here, by all means don't. (27 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)

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  Re: LEGO trademark (was: Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...[lego phone])
 
(...) Yep, that's pretty much what they ask you to say. You can shorten it to just "LEGO bricks", if you want. <URL:(URL), of course. Of course, if you're polite about it, as a non-lawyer and non-Lego-employee, I advocate calling the product "Lego" (...) (27 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)

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