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Re: expansion ports
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:31:03 GMT
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Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36a90add.169456990@lugnet.com>...
> Reductio ad absurdam:
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 about (and what the majority of the thread was
about) was the LEGO patent on the 9V connector. For that they have an
active patent. They didn't get it just to show off and waste a lot of
money. They got it so that other people could not copy it or use it without
their permission. See:
http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/cgi-bin/viewpat.cmd/US05848503__
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) I can make the same case about something they _do_ have a patent on... say, the 12-tooth bevel gear, is pretty new. Does that come with a patent? (...) Devil's advocate. Jasper (25 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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