Le'go that LEGO

LEGO is in the news, having lost its trademark in a European tribunal.

Makes this a good time to share with you the very plain language product description filed with the Canadian court by LEGO's lawyers here:

A rectilinear array of uniform, smooth-sided, flat-topped, cylindrical, co-planar protuberances,the proportions of height, diameter and center-to-center spacing of which are approximately 2 : 5 : 8. Where there is more than one row of protuberances, they are arranged in mutually orthogonal rows and columns.

Well, maybe not so plain, eh?

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June 2008: Lego brick wall repairs of artist Jan Vormann and friends in Bocchignano, Italy Photograph: Rex Features