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Re: expansion ports
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:40:39 GMT
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On Tue, 5 Jan 1999 21:18:35 GMT, Michael Gasperi <gasperi@alynk.com>
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> LEGO makes and sells the product to Torys'RUs. Torys'RUS can sell it to
> anybody they want and on and on. This is not what happens if you try to
> make a LEGO compatable product. Only LEGO has the right to manufacture
> and sell a product that works with their construction set. If you cut the
> LEGO connector up and add it to some new thing, the new thing becomes
> compatable with the construction set. You can use it yourself all you
> want, but I don't think you can sell it.
Reductio ad absurdam: You buy, say, 8880. You lose one of the, say,
#12 axles. You replace with 2 #6 and an axle extender. You sell it on
(bad move, IMHO, but hey, it could happen :) ). By your reasoning, you
now have sold a product, not made by LEGO, yet compatible with LEGO.
Second example: You have a 6*16 plate that's snapped in half, and
you've managed to load it off on some sucker. :) You now have sold a
modified version of something Lego holds a patent on.
Jasper, who's just beinmf Devil's advocate here....
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| Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36a90add.169456990@...et.com>... (...) Your examples are irrelevant because they probably don't still have active patents on the pieces and may or may not have ever had patents on all of them. What I was talking (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) LEGO makes and sells the product to Torys'RUs. Torys'RUS can sell it to anybody they want and on and on. This is not what happens if you try to make a LEGO compatable product. Only LEGO has the right to manufacture and sell a product that (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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