Some of my wife’s family was over for the fourth of July for a family reunion this past week. One of the brother-in-laws busted out some Legos, so some of us sat down and started to play with them. I started to tell stories of building Lego sets as a young child and some of the creations I had made. I then mentioned how when I was younger, my brothers and I decided that it would be really cool if Lego made a chess set from Lego guys. We even typed up a letter to the Lego corporation outlining how we thought the Lego chess set should be. It was quite detailed right down to the individual Lego guys we would have used for the various pieces. After I said this one of my nephews informed me that Lego had started making a Lego chess set. I was shocked. Okay, we set this idea to them over ten years ago, but I’m here to tell you that the idea for the Lego chess set was ours! The funny thing about this is that when we originally sent the Lego chess set idea to the Lego company, they responded with a letter saying, in a roundabout way, that they would not be able to create the chess set due to the fact that it would require them to pay royalties to us. We of course at the time would have been entirely happy if they would have just built the set, but no. They waited ten years for us to forget and went on to create this set. Do they owe us restitution? Absolutely.

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