Press Release: The General Court upholds the registration of the shape of Lego figures as a Community trade mark

Report on judgments in Cases T-395/14 and T-396/14. Best-Lock Europe (Ltd) v OHIM — Lego Juris.

The General Court dismisses Best-Lock’s actions and thereby upholds the decisions to register the shape of Lego figures as a Community trade mark.

General Court observes that it appears that no technical result is connected to or entailed by the shape of the essential characteristics of the figures (heads, bodies, arms and legs), as those characteristics do not, in any event, allow the figures to be joined to interlocking building blocks.

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