Lego stacks up win in design scrap thanks to EU court ruling
Brussels (dpa) - Lego may have a pathway to protect its bricks as intellectual property after the EU General Court handed the Danish toymaker a win in a dispute about whether the design of some of its bricks can be exclusively registered.
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) erred in law when it found that the bricks in question did not qualify as a protected design, the bloc's second-highest court ruled on Wednesday.
The office had failed to examine part of Lego's argument, according to a statement sent out by the General Court.