Danish toy maker Lego lost a big trademark battle in Europe this week: their Canadian rival Mega Brands successfully appealed to the EU's trademark office to cancel Lego's trademark, issued in 1999. Judges agreed with experts who said a brick was a technical shape which could not be trademarked.
Lego cannot be trademarked, European judges rule
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