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Subject: 
Re: Legal ramifications of posting?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sun, 1 Jul 2001 06:04:21 GMT
Original-From: 
Julian Gomez <jeg@polished-SPAMLESSpixels.com>
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on 6/29/01 04:49, John Barnes at barnes@sensors.com wrote:

I'm not quite sure I believe this. If someone systematically started to
document useful combinations of holes and pegs and gear teeth etc etc
it would effectively lock TLC out of future development.

What does that mean?

No one can patent gears and hole and peg combinations now. Even the US
patent office isn't that bad.
---
Dr. Julian "a tribble took it " Gomez
(former) Director of Advanced Technology Group, LEGO A/S



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  Re: Legal ramifications of posting?
 
(...) They won't. The legal problems and ramifications from accepting unsolicited input are pretty significant, with respect to the intellectual property issues. TLG decided a long time ago not to get caught up in it. Another poster mentioned the (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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