Canadian Supreme Court grants LEGO Company Leave to Appeal.Business Editors RICHMOND HILL Richmond Hill may refer to: Places:
The Supreme Court of Canada The Supreme Court of Canada (French: Cour suprême du Canada) is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeal in the Canadian justice system.[1] has issued a judgment on April 29, 2004 granting LEGO Company leave to appeal its case against Mega Bloks Mega Brands, Incorporated TSX: MB (Formerly Mega Bloks, Incorporated) is a publicly traded children's toy company based in Montreal, Canada and is a bootleg of LEGO. Mega Bloks is the name of their most popular toy, plastic building blocks. Mega Brands Inc. Inc. The Supreme Court generally grants leave only in exceptional cases involving issues of national importance. In this case, LEGO Company has claimed an injunction injunction, in law, order of a court directing a party to perform a certain act or to refrain from an act or acts. The injunction, which developed as the main remedy in equity, is used especially where money damages would not satisfy a plaintiff's claim, or to and damages against Mega Bloks Inc. for passing off Mega Bloks toy brick products as those of LEGO Company. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Poul Hartvig Nielsen, General Counsel of LEGO Company headquartered in Billund, Denmark, "this decision gives LEGO Company an important opportunity to present its case to the Supreme Court for protecting its world-famous LEGO products. LEGO Company welcomes fair competition, but is committed to protecting its intellectual property rights and to safeguarding the public from imitations which tend to cause confusion with consumers." In July 2003, in a 2-1 split decision, the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal upheld a lower court's decision in the action brought by LEGO Company against Mega Blocks Inc. The lower court's decision of May 2002 held that the sale of Mega Bloks' micro brick products on the Canadian market is not a violation of Canadian law despite a clear finding that Mega Bloks' imitation imitation, in music, a device of counterpoint wherein a phrase or motive is employed successively in more than one voice. The imitation may be exact, the same intervals being repeated at the same or different pitches, or it may be free, in which case numerous types of LEGO(R) bricks resulted in confusion among Canadian consumers. The date for the hearing of the Supreme Court Appeal has not yet been determined. |
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