Comments by "LoneTech" (@0LoneTech) on "LegalEagle" channel.

LEGO really stole the patent in the first place. They kept their market position with some excellent quality control, though.
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It really is an odd observation. Here on YouTube, I'm used to the advertisements being the offensive content.
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@georgieippolito9924 That's a creative compatible product. What knock-offs do is produce a few similar bricks, often of so low quality they won't fit, perhaps slap a picture of a lego set on the box, and sell it as just slightly cheaper in non-discerning markets.
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@Fronken89 I've never been worse hurt in travels than fallingdown some stairs, which stunned me for a minute and meant I needed to straighten out my bike and replace my helmet. But I've almost been killed by cars at least three times. It's rather uneasy to realize that particular time, looking twice before going into a pedestrian crossing with green light for me absolutely saved my life.
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@Khenfu_Cake That's the primary improvement of the circa 1958 Lego brick patent, yes. What's iffy is how it was applied for in a variety of countries without acknowledging the fact it was based on the Kiddicraft bricks, themselves patented 1947. At least a quick skim found no reference to that in the US version (1961), though it does refer to other Great Britain patents 6610 and 676469; it also refers to tubes interlocking with the studs (going around them, not between) as well known. The UK search service to find these patents of course picked today to be unavailable, and I don't know if the Danish one is even scanned, so I'm unable to confirm some details. It's rather remarkable that it's being simultaneously claimed that Lego had Kiddicraft's permission and that the founder of Kiddicraft didn't know of Lego.
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Usually they just plagiarize someone else's comments. And Youtube don't care; reports just hide the entry momentarily.
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@Khenfu_Cake It was a patent (messily applied separately in different markets), not copyright. Trademarks are also a different thing. Some people try to conflate them all, often with the nebulous "intellectual property" moniker. Lego do now describe how the bricks were used to demonstrate the injection molding machine before Lego worked with plastics.
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Making stuff up is its function. You may be thinking of a search engine.
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@Kcoldraz Neither do its producers, judging from how they trained it to produce contradictory statements when asked that particular question.
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Judging by prior experience, Disney will retroactively extend their "rights" a few more decades again, totally ignoring this "public domain" idea.
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Can't yell "fire" certainly has made it into custom, if not law. Case in point, the pub song "the old dun cow", wherein the audience is expected to loudly shout... McIntyre.
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