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Re: SCC rules in favour of Mega Bloks in Lego battle
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Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:09:54 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Bryan Wong wrote:
From
http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051117/mega_bloks_lego_051117

Mega Bloks Inc. did not infringe on Lego's trademark, the Supreme Court of
Canada ruled Thursday.

Thanks for linking to this story.  I'd dispute one point, though:

The brightly-coloured toy blocks are similar in design. Mega Bloks tend to be
larger, and do not link with Lego blocks.

That's technically true if you cherry-pick which Mega Bloks you want to test,
but then the same can be said of LEGO:LEGO linking.

Micro-scale Mega Bloks are almost 100% compatible with system-scale LEGO bricks,
with some minor variance due to mold specifications.

Dave!



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  SCC rules in favour of Mega Bloks in Lego battle
 
From (URL) Bloks Inc. did not infringe on Lego's trademark, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday. Danish toy maker Lego had appealed to the higher court, alleging that Mega Bloks had copied the "look" of the tiny knobs that allow the blocks to (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)

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