Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart
by DemocracyFTW on Friday December 03, 2021 @11:36PM
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This is wrong, he called himself Held der Steine. To suggest that because a solitary small time shop owner uses a fully generic image of a toy brick will cause the mighty Lego brand to get lost is bizarre. To be sure Lego does not have a copyright, trademark or patent on generic click-to-fit toy bricks and this has been ascertained by a high German court after one decade of strenuous litigation. Lego acts as though they had won that case but the didn't.
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Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart
by kuschku on Saturday December 04, 2021 @12:23PM
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> To be sure Lego does not have a copyright, trademark or patent on generic click-to-fit toy bricks and this has been ascertained by a high German court after one decade of strenuous litigation
Lego actually won that case for clothing and merchandise. Only for actual bricks they lost it.
He tried to get a trademark on merchandise for his line of clothing, which conflicted with that.