Breaking news -- and it's bad for Google and Lego

Here are two pieces of breaking news: Google has lost its appeal against the CTM opposition lodged by a German businessman with a mark including the word "G-mail" in its bid to secure pan-European protection for the word Gmail (see here) and Lego's attempt to use unfair competition law to resist competition from makers of compatible bricks has failed in Italy (see here). Time permitting, the IPKat hopes to revisit each of these decisions at greater length.