{"id":5007,"date":"2011-03-07T04:29:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T12:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5007"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:57:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:57:23","slug":"lego-stole-their-now-patented-bricks-from-kiddicrafts-patented-self-locking-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/lego-stole-their-now-patented-bricks-from-kiddicrafts-patented-self-locking-bricks\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGO Stole Their Bricks From Kiddicraft&#8217;s Patented Self Locking Building Bricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/origin-of-legos1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5009\" title=\"origin-of-legos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/origin-of-legos1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/origin-of-legos1.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/origin-of-legos1-340x354.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Where the Word Lego Comes From\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/where-the-word-lego-comes-from\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Lego Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the late 1940s, a company called Kiddicraft began manufacturing \u201cKiddicraft Self-Locking Building Bricks\u201d, which were patented by Hilary Harry Fisher Page.\u00a0 Kirk Kristiansen, the founder of LEGO, came across these bricks in a demo he was shown of an injection molding machine.\u00a0 He then copied these bricks and sold them under his own brand as \u201cautomatic binding bricks\u201d.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t clear whether Kristiansen knew these bricks were patented or not at the time or just saw the potential of such a small plastic brick as a toy product when observing the injection molding machine demo.\u00a0 Lucky for him, Page died without ever finding out LEGO had copied his product illegally. Some 31 years later, LEGO acquired Kiddicraft when they were preparing to, ironically enough, sue Tyco for illegally copying their bricks.\u00a0 In the end, LEGO lost the case and Tyco was allowed to continue selling the bricks, which at the time were earning them about $20 million annually.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Lego Facts In the late 1940s, a company called Kiddicraft began manufacturing \u201cKiddicraft Self-Locking Building Bricks\u201d, which were patented by Hilary Harry Fisher Page.\u00a0 Kirk Kristiansen, the founder of LEGO, came across these bricks in a demo he was shown of an injection molding machine.\u00a0 He then copied these bricks [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1290],"class_list":["post-5007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-lego-brick-origins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5014,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions\/5014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}