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Subject:	Re: O'Reilly book news
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics
Date:	Tue, 7 Sep 1999 19:45:56 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Jim Thomas) writes: > Title was: LEGO=AE MINDSTORMS(TM) Robots > New title: EUROSTYLEPLASTICBINDINGBLOCKS=AE BRAINSQUALLS(TM) Robots > > And of course O'Reilly can register and trademark these so LEGO > can't steal them -- 'cause you know they would want to. [...] In case you don't know, "mindstorms" and "constructopedia" were both used by Seymour Papert long before LEGO started using them as trademarks (although both are now registered trademarks of the LEGO group). See: Abstract of application to NSF (award # 9553474), using the term "constructopedia" in 1995: http://red.www.nsf.gov/EHR/RED/AAT/awrd9553474.html Papert's 1980 book "Mindstorms:Children Computers and Powerful Ideas": http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465046274 LEGO Group's trademarks, giving August 1998 as first date of commerce: http://trademarks.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/ifetch4?ENG+ALL+3+965305+4+0+35668+F+1+1+1+MS%2fconstructopedia http://trademarks.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/ifetch4?ENG+ALL+3+964926+4+0+31089+F+1+1+1+MS%2fmindstorms - Robert Munafo http://www.mrob.com/ LEGO: TC+++(8480) SW++ #+ S-- LS++ Hsp M+ A@ LM++ YB64m IC13

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		RE: O'Reilly book news
Title was: LEGO® MINDSTORMS(TM) Robots New title: EUROSTYLEPLASTICBINDINGBLOCKS® BRAINSQUALLS(TM) Robots And of course O'Reilly can register and trademark these so LEGO® can't steal them -- 'cause you know they would want to. JT -----Original (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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