Best-Lock

Best-Lock Construction Toys
Building Sets
Headquarters England
Products Toys
Website www.best-lock.com

Best-Lock Construction Toys is a brand of plastic building bricks that are compatible with Lego. Best-Lock Ltd is based in Colne, Lancashire, England.

Products

Best-Lock offers different sized blocks including Standard Blocks, Junior Blocks (young children 2-5), and Baby Blocks (For kids 0-2). Themes for Standard Blocks include Town sets (Police, Fire and Construction), military, pirates, farming, and Kimmy (Best-Lock sets made for females). Licensed sets include The Terminator and Stargate SG-1 themes.

Legal challenges

Best-Lock has been involved with multiple legal cases involving Lego. They defeated a patent challenge from Lego in 2004.[1][2] In a further case in 2009, Lego was denied trademark protection for the shape of its bricks;[3] however, in 2015, Best-Lock lost two cases in the European Court in which they attempted to deny Lego trademark protection on the shape of its minifigs.[4][5]

Merger

Best-Lock and Cobi, a Polish building block manufacturer with a strong presence in Eastern Europe and Asia, announced a merger on February 2, 2006. The merger has since yielded co-branded building block toys. Toys are still sold under the separate labels Best-Lock and Cobi, but many Cobi sets appear in North American retailers such as Toys R' Us and Amazon.com under the Best-Lock brand.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Forty-year Monopolistic LEGO-Doctrine Ruling Reversed as Best-Lock Europe LTD Wins Patent and Trademark Case". Highbeam. March 28, 2005. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
  2. ↑ "Pressemitteilung Nr. 147/04 vom 3.12.2004". Juris.bundesgerichtshof.de. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
  3. ↑ von RA Dennis Breuer (2012-04-19). "Pressemitteilung des BGH Nr. 158/2009: Legostein als Marke gelöscht | markenmagazin:recht". Markenmagazin.de. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
  4. ↑ "Best-Lock (Europe) v OHMI - Lego Juris (Forme d'une figurine de jouet)".
  5. ↑ "EU court rules Lego figurines are protected trademark". 2015-06-16.
  6. ↑ "Best Lock Group Ltd. Is Pleased to Announce Its Merger with Cobi". Business Wire. 7 February 2006. Retrieved 25 November 2015.

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