Wednesday, January 22, 2003

The Lego Company LEGO: Studs With Clutching Power. LEGO bricks, with their studs with 360 degrees of clutching power, lie in the interstices of several forms of intellectual property: patent, copyright and trade dress.  Its success forces Lego to fight on many fronts.  It has now prevailed on a copyright theory in China, against a company which copied its bricks.  Interestingly, the remedies included seizure of the machinery to manufacture the duplicate bricks, and the publication of a written apology.  This is significant in China's attempts to "normalize" its treatment of IP rights (but see  . . . ) [The Trademark Blog] 7:35:34 PM     Send Some Mousepads to those Doing the Work What does Linus tell all his minions of hobbiests? "Of course BigCo's like IBM and HP would love to send you some cash, but you work for the passion, the community, the fight againist captialism and dreams of cool code." Linux brings in big bucks. IBM and Hewlett-Packard garnered billions of dollars in revenue from Linux-related products in 2002, the companies say. [CNET News.com] 7:32:42 PM     Eat Your Young SCO threats to take actions againist friend and foe and hires the bootlicker attorney David Bois. 7:26:22 PM     France and Germany I think the last big collaboration between these two powers was a little thing called "Vichy" between 1940-44. The idea that France would come back waving a piece of parchment and declare "Peace in our time", will be no different that Chamberlin and Hitler. Saddam will go down in flames and he has deserved it for a long time. The bigger battle of civilizations looms ahead... 7:18:34 PM

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