LEGO bricks are far older than their epitomous Minifigure friends, and today, 40 years after the first Minifigure was born, we're having a peek at the first patent. The patent comes after the first ...

Every few years, it seems, the U.S. patent for the Lego brick is posted and linked around the Internet, reminding us all that the business that has spawned billions of dollars in sales began with a ...

The General Court of the European Union (EuG), the bloc's second-highest court, struck down a 2019 decision by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) on Tuesday, ruling that the ...

Plastic toy building blocks major Lego Group has lost an infringement case in the home territory of its main rival, Mega Bloks Inc. The Supreme Court of Canada on Nov. 17 dismissed an appeal brought ...

Mexico’s intellectual property office ruling in favour of iFone, Lego asking the UK government to remove images, German legal scholars debating whether Mein Kampf should be studied or suppressed when ...

Lego has been granted a patent for a toy construction system that includes marker construction elements recognizable by an image processing system. The system allows users to create virtual actions by ...

Patents are densely written, nearly unreadable blends of technical and legal jargon. I love ‘em. I’ve spent much of my working life developing a taste for these impenetrable documents and whilst those ...

Best-Lock Group, a manufacturer of plastic building block toys, says it's asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel Lego's trademark. Lego, in turn, has sued Best-Lock in U.S. District ...

LEGOs have always been fun to play with. Especially since the minifigure was established back in 1979. This document found at Jay Mug features the original US patent submission for LEGOs minifigure.

LONDON — Danish play materials specialist Lego Group has become the 21st company to license the Moore Microprocessor patent porfolio (MMP) from The TPL Group. Lego Group (Billund, Denmark) would not ...