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Re:The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of Patent Trolling by jacquesm on Saturday November 09, 2019 @03:48PM (#21494253)
Because they took someone else's design, and then sued everybody that tried to use 'their' design. They attempted to at least put a legal figleaf on this by acquiring that company for a pittance many years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Fisher_Page

LEGO should really acknowledge that what they did was wrong.

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Re:The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of Patent Trolling by jjtheblunt on Sunday November 10, 2019 @08:13PM (#21501372)
Thank you: had not known of this.
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Re:The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of Patent Trolling by NeedMoreTea on Sunday November 10, 2019 @08:27PM (#21501424)
It was a blatant and extreme rip off of someone else's work too. They copied every single detail of branding, marketing, packaging and product:

http://hilarypagetoys.com/Images/articlestock/article875_Ima...

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