“LEGOCHEM BIOSCIENCES, INC.” VS “LEGO Juris A/S”

“LEGOCHEM BIOSCIENCES, INC.” VS “LEGO Juris A/S”

There have been a few conflict regarding trademarks of a pharmaceutical company “LEGOCHEM BIOSCIENCES, INC.” and Danish toy company “LEGO Juris A/S”

LEGOCHEM BIOSCIENCES, INC. filed a cancellation trial against International trademark registration no. 1006003 of LEGO Juris A/S and succeeded in cancelling the registration in regards to some of the designated goods in Class 3 including cosmetics as LEGO Juris A/S did not file any evidence of use against the filed cancellation trial.

LEGOCHEM BIOSCIENCES, INC. achieved their purposes in regards to Class 3 with the cancellation trial. However, regarding Class 5 which is more important to LEGOCHEM BIOSCIENCES, INC. as a pharmaceutical company, they could not protect their trademark registration for “

” due to trademarks of LEGO Juris A/S.

“

” filed in 2015 designating goods in Class 5 including pharmaceuticals was rejected due to its similarity to trademarks of LEGO Juris A/S such as “

” and “

”. LEGOCHEM BIOSCIENCES, INC. appealed against the decision and succeeded which led to registration of “ ”. However, LEGO Juris A/S filed an invalidation trial against the registration of “

.” Although they failed at the first trial, by succeeding in the second trial, the registration of “

” was invalidated.

The decision on the registration of “

” has been constantly changed.

It seems that some controversial point of views may remain as to if the co-existence of the mark of LEGOCHEM BIOSCIENCES, INC. designating “pharmaceuticals, etc.” and the marks of LEGO Juris A/S designating “games and playthings” will confuse consumers or not.