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Re:Kiddicraft, the Company Lego Ripped Off to Make Plastic B... by Zigurd on Sunday October 11, 2015 @07:42PM (#10371663)
But without one of them hiring enough lawyers to end up looking the inventor, we'd have nothing. Right?
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Re:Kiddicraft, the Company Lego Ripped Off to Make Plastic B... by ccvannorman on Monday October 12, 2015 @02:07PM (#10376093)
Thank God for patents, without them this invention clearly wouldn't have had the human willpower to do it at all.

But with patents, yay! A few aggressive apes got rich and everyone else got to play with the invention. Capitalism ROCKS.

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