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Re:LegoOS: Disseminated, Distributed OS for Hardware Resourc... by 1manowar1 on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @12:07AM (#18491919)
Wrong! In 1978, LEGO's major patent expired in the US (20 years after it was filed in 1958).
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Re:LegoOS: Disseminated, Distributed OS for Hardware Resourc... by cyphar on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @12:52AM (#18492045)
Patents are entirely unrelated to trademarks. I very much doubt that an operating system would be able to infringe on a patent for interconnecting plastic blocks.

An operating system called "LegoOS" might infringe on the trademark of a plastic block company called "LEGO" (though one of the tests is "likelihood of confusion" and it would be hard to confuse the two).

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