The Lego Brick in the Borderzone Between Forms of Protection

I went down a rabbit hole writing a blog post about how Lego uses (and arguably abuses) intellectual property laws to protect their bricks and minifigs. And after writing my post I found that someone had written an entire masters thesis on the topic in 2005! Pretty interesting stuff.

If interested my post covers some more recent cases like the 2020 Zuru case: https://bricktoad.com/posts/lego-compatible-alt-bricks/