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by 1manowar1 2770 days ago
Wrong! In 1978, LEGO's major patent expired in the US (20 years after it was filed in 1958).
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Patents are entirely unrelated to trademarks. I very much doubt that an operating system would be able to infringe on a patent for interconnecting plastic blocks.

An operating system called "LegoOS" might infringe on the trademark of a plastic block company called "LEGO" (though one of the tests is "likelihood of confusion" and it would be hard to confuse the two).