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Dez 14, 2010
Florian Traub, Hammonds LLP, UK

Just another brick in the wall?


Florian Traub, Hammonds LLP, UKIn Case C-48/09 P Lego Juris A/S v OHIM and Mega Brands Inc. (14 September 2010) the Court of Justice of the European Union held that Lego’s long-contested Community trade mark consisting of the shape of a red Lego brick was invalid under Article 7(1)(e)(ii) Community Trade Mark Regulation (207/2009) (CTMR). In April 1996, Kirkbi A/S, the predecessor in title of Lego Juris A/S, applied to register the red Lego brick as a three-dimensional mark inter alia for “games and playthings” in class 28: read more