xwingyoda Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 Fantastic news guys *sing* !!!!!!!! "Breda Metropolitan Court in the Netherlands has ruled that the Canadian toy manufacturer, Mega Bloks, is not permitted to market and sell bricks in the Netherlands which can be mistaken for LEGO bricks". Yeahhhhhh, in your face ( :oD :P ) !!!!!! The Netherlands rule !!!! Now lets hope this will create momentum in other countries !!!!!! There is hope: "Since the world famous LEGO brick was created, the LEGO Group has brought Quote
Mr. Lego-builder Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 Great news! Just for a thought...LEGO is winning in most court cases, except for in the U.S. and Canada...why is this? Are the laws that different? I mean, I can understand why LEGO couldn't win in Canada, but why not in the U.S.? Quote
SuvieD Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 My guess is that it has little to do with the laws and more to do with the judge. In the US at least judges seem to be able to "interpret" the law more so than uphold the law. This is not true in all cases but it is sad to say that it is true in some. Quote
xwingyoda Posted July 11, 2005 Author Posted July 11, 2005 True, but nowadays most of the big civil cases are tried by jury, so you never know what to expect, and the judge always have the possibility to lower the amount of damages awarded... Quote
Mr. Lego-builder Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 Judges aren't always the smartest people, eh? Quote
eDeevo Posted July 11, 2005 Posted July 11, 2005 Let me be the one to buck the system here... Although I love LEGO & despise Megablocks (of which, I own none ;) ) I believe that cometition is good for TLC. Competition is actually a vital part of any business market, both for the consumers & for the businesses themselves. If TLC is forced to compete with other companies (i.e. the U.S.A.), it will force TLC to continue to be more creative & to brainstorm ideas of keeping costs low to continue sales... With no competition, TLC could essentially charge whatever they'd like, & that is not good for us consumers... It is also because of this, I believe, that TLC will NEVER win a court battle within the U.S.A. preventing 'copycats' from selling their cheaper bricks (literally & figuratively cheaper ;) ). In the U.S.A. it is actually illegal to own 100% of any market & to use that power to hamper competitors (anyone remember when Microsoft was forced to split?) :$ . By suing others & trying to prevent them from selling their product within the U.S.A., TLC would be doing what is illegal in this country... AMD is currently suing Intel for having "unlawfully maintained its monopoly by forcing major customers such as Dell, Sony, Toshiba, Gateway and Hitachi into Intel-exclusive deals in return for outright cash payments, discriminatory pricing or marketing subsidies conditioned on the exclusion of AMD." Let me be clear though... I love LEGO & in my mind there is no competition :-D Life is Good. Quote
xwingyoda Posted July 11, 2005 Author Posted July 11, 2005 Sure I agree with you that competition is a valuable asset for companies to make themselves better and more attractive ;) After its all a question of market and consummers' views of this market. If TLC was in a perfect monopolistic position, would that mean that they would sell bad product ??? I doubt it, especially in todays world where kids prefer new technology very young instead of playing with our dear bricks. If you have a too wide market, then a lot of familly with less income (i'm not being pejorative here, i'm being realistic) would not buy Lego but the Cheap rip off product !!!!!!! The building toy market is rather large, so competitors can come up with a lot of different design without being cheap copycats. Also, European law is rather restrictive on pure monopolistic markets !!!!! Quote
chewie Posted July 12, 2005 Posted July 12, 2005 talking about stupid judges here in Canada there is a place maby 30 mins away from where i live called African lion Safari it is a zoo but you stay in your care and drive through the animal things so at the entrance to the lion thing a sign says DO NOT OPEN WINDOWS anyways the idiots open the windows and a lion jumped in the car they later sued African Lion Safari and won it in court and got 2million *wacko* Quote
Mr. Lego-builder Posted July 12, 2005 Posted July 12, 2005 |-D |-D HAHAHAHA! This post shouldn't belong here...it should belong in the humor section! :P I can't belive how stupid they were! |-D |-D Quote
chewie Posted July 12, 2005 Posted July 12, 2005 well whoever is an admin can move it however they wish...but i know eh like wow what idiots Quote
Governor Mister Phes Posted July 12, 2005 Governor Posted July 12, 2005 Sure I agree with you that competition is a valuable asset for companies to make themselves better and more attractive ;) I'll third the praise on competition... Afterall it means LEGO can't slack off too much and lower its quality otherwise the competition will succeed them. However, after seeing the recent MegaBlok Pirate and Castle sets it would be extremely difficult to mistake them for LEGO. Quote
LegoBMW Posted July 21, 2005 Posted July 21, 2005 I am going to Holland this summer and i am so glad that i will be able to get away from fake legos for a little bit. :-D Quote
prateek Posted July 24, 2005 Posted July 24, 2005 omg, megabloks is canadian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *devil* OMG Quote
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