I feel like this may have been discussed here before, but a quick search did not find anything. I did find the below article written last year (Shane breaking a box of 2002 Vintage). Anyways with this years Heritage design beings based off of the 1971 Topps Design it made me double take a card that I found last night while flipping through my Reds PC (2002 Upper Deck Vintage Larkin). So at 3 AM I found myself on Google trying to find out how Upper Deck was able to use the 71 design in their 2002 product. Besides the article by Shane which states that does not know either, I found an article from 2009 at the beginning of the end for Upper Deck being able to make "official" baseball cards. It is funny because the article does mention Topps accusing Upper Deck of plans to use the 71 design in their 2009 product. So the question in my mind is how were they able to get away with it in 2002? Has someone else been able to find the answer or have any insight?
2019 Article by Shane Salmonson
https://www.beckett.com/news/cheap-wax-w...-baseball/
2009 Article by Chris Olds
https://www.beckett.com/news/topps-sues-...esign-use/
2019 Article by Shane Salmonson
https://www.beckett.com/news/cheap-wax-w...-baseball/
2009 Article by Chris Olds
https://www.beckett.com/news/topps-sues-...esign-use/