r/dankmemes • u/only777 ☣️ • Jul 30 '24

I am probably an intellectual or something Suck it America

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u/nekoeuge Jul 30 '24

They are just salty because if “Lego” becomes a true noun, they won’t be able to trademark it anymore. Just like Google is salty about “googling” becoming a verb. I am not a lawyer, but I remember reading about this stuff, so I am like 70% confident it’s correct.

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u/Senor-Delicious Jul 30 '24

Lego started suing content creators that called other manufacturers' bricks "Legos". So yeah. They are pretty aggressive about it.

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u/nekoeuge Jul 30 '24

What would be the ground for the lawsuit? Company is not entitled to determine the development of spoken language.

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u/Senor-Delicious Jul 30 '24 edited Jul 30 '24

Not a lawyer. I can just say that they did this. In this example to a German guy having a pretty big Lego related YouTube channel. I assume you can in fact sue people for advertising products with your company name if the products are not by your company.

Edit: I can only give you German articles about it. But Google translate should be fine to translate the page to English I'd assume. For example this.