>>7226013Yes, LEGO created that tube that's connected to the bottom of the piece. That's okay, I think. But they wanted the brick format for themselves.
And they wanted to protect it under trademark. It's the same thing that Disney is doing with Mickey Mouse, that's why they're using the black/white Mickey everywhere. Mickey is about to go public domain, yet no one will be able to use him because of trademarks.
They could only get the Minifigure trademark. I don't think that was okay, because the minifigures were never used as their own thing from LEGO before, they were pieces of a system... they started to market the minifigures like that with that trademark battle. They won. But I don't think they should've won.
Thankfully they lost the brick trademark. I guess that's why they're not using that system logo with the brick on top of it anymore.
