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How does LEGO maintain its intellectual property strategy?
The LEGO Group is partnered with a huge range of licenses and companies, as well as owning their own properties and patents, but how do they protect and maintain their many intellectual properties? Recently, IPOS International sat down with members of the LEGO Group’s legal team in the Asia-Pacific, including regions such as China, Japan…
Is it ever okay to buy fake LEGO sets?
Is it ever okay to buy fake LEGO? Emma Kennedy gets existential for Brick Fanatics as she ponders the ultimate ethical dilemma – for LEGO fans, anyway. All great things have imitators, and I suppose we have reached that point where we need to slide sideways into a darkened room, don balaclavas, and discuss – cue a…
Chinese court upholds sentences for LEGO counterfeiters
A Chinese court has upheld prison sentences – and a huge fine – for the people behind LEGO clone brand Lepin. The Third Intermediate People’s Court of Shanghai originally sentenced the ‘chief culprit’, known only as Li, and eight other defendants to jail time in September 2020. The Higher People’s Court in Shanghai has now upheld…
Lepin owners jailed in China
A chinese court has sentenced the people behind the clone brand Lepin to jail terms and handed them a $13 million fine. Following years of copyright infringment by the clone brand Lepin, a company in China that copies LEGO sets, boxes and artworks, those behind the business have been sentences in China. Xinhua reports the…
Lepin continues to steal fan designs
Despite the legal setbacks that Lepin, the clone brand that has produced knock-off LEGO sets for years, the company has not stopped the practice of stealing fan designs. Lepin is a brand that has stolen intellectual property from the LEGO Group, reproducing official LEGO sets and the elements within them, then selling these inferior quality…
Lepin owners lose to the LEGO Group in appeal against court ruling
The LEGO Group has won a final decision in China after the owners of clone brand Lepin appealed a court ruling. An announcement from the LEGO Group reveals that the company has received “favourable final decisions” from the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court in China. The company was facing appeals from defendants in multiple cases of…
LEGO fans help to combat Lepin and other clone brands
A spokesperson for the LEGO Group has confirmed that fans have helped the company combat clone brands, such as Lepin, who produce knock-off products. One month ago, Shanghai Police raided the factories of Lepin, the brand that has been producing knock-off LEGO sets for years. Unfortunately, it seems that the clone brands continue anyway, with…
Clone brand Lepin has factories raided and owner is arrested for infringing the LEGO Group’s copyright
Shanghai Police have raided the factories of Lepin, a clone brand manufacturer copying LEGO products, and arrested the company’s owner. Lepin has frustrated the LEGO Group for many years, as has been covered here at Brick Fanatics, by manufacturing inferior copies of the company’s products and even stealing designs from talented fans. Recently, efforts by…
The LEGO Group successfully gets Lepin trademark cancelled in the UK
The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has invalidated the trademark of Lepin, a manufacturer of knock-off LEGO products. Lepin has been frustrating the LEGO Group for years, as the China based company, owned by Longjun Toys, produces inferior copies of authentic LEGO products. The clone brand products have been found at supposedly reputable retailers and…
