Industry committee  Lego blocks. Lego tried, and there's a Supreme Court case on that. The functionality of the knobs on the Lego blocks were claimed as a trademark. It was held that those were functional in nature and therefore, Lego couldn't obtain trademark protection on those knobs.

Industry committee  If you have a trademark, but part of that trademark claim relates to a functional element within that trademark, you would not be able to claim trademark rights over that functional element.

Industry committee  The shape of the bottle would be the trademark, but how you hold it would be the functional element.

Industry committee  A shape of a bottle can be a trademark.

Industry committee  In particular, Coke has trademarked their bottle.

Industry committee  Yes, if it served a purpose that other businesses would also like to avail themselves of, so that you're not giving proprietary interest in a functional element.

Industry committee  The trademarks office is aware of that and we're not concerned. There are already bad faith provisions in the Trade-marks Act that prevent businesses from filing and obtaining trademark rights on that basis. Why would a business do that? Who would be in the business of filing tra