The General Court of the European Union, the bloc's second-highest court, struck down a 2019 decision by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) on Tuesday, ruling that the design of Danish toy manufacturing giant LEGO's building blocks are protected by patent.
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Wednesday's decision came after LEGO appealed the EUIPO ruling, with judges writing: "EUIPO erroneously declared invalid a design of a brick of a LEGO toy building set. EUIPO failed to examine the relevance of the application of the exception relied on by LEGO and failed to take into consideration all the features of appearance of the brick."
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EUIPO had sided with the German company Delta Sport in 2019, ruling that the design of LEGO bricks was dictated solely by their technical function and thus only protected for a limited time by their design patent — a rule designed to hinder monopolization.[출처] (단독) 덴마크 장난감 제조업체 레고, 독일 델타 스포츠와의 디자인 특허소송에서 승소|작성자 디스클로저