Build the Tallest Tower. Then Defend It in Court.

​Five teams. Two hours. One rule: build the tallest LEGO® tower you can — without infringing anyone else's patent.

​You'll file patent applications on your own designs, which forces you to decide what is actually novel about them. You'll take them through a mock patent office. And when another team builds too close to your claim, you'll argue it out in a patent court.

​The examiner's desk is held by Bjørn Lillekjendlie, for 13 years Director of the Patent Department at Patentstyret, the Norwegian patent office. The questions your claim comes back with are the ones the office actually asks. The court is chaired by Leila Mae Vafana, Strategic IP Manager at Breeze IP, who designed the format and has run it with engineering and product teams at ROCKWOOL A/S.

​What you're really doing, fast and out loud, is making the decisions you make for real: what to protect, what to leave open, when to file, and what to do when someone else's position gets in the way of yours. Left late, these decisions get made for you: a public demo before filing that costs you the patent in Europe, a filing date that went to whoever got there first, and no freedom to operate in the market you were counting on. Most founders meet all three for the first time in a diligence room.

​You leave knowing where a patent works for your business and where someone else's works against it, having argued both yourself rather than watched them on a slide.

​Built for Life Science and Deep Tech founders, whether you have filed nothing yet or already hold a portfolio. No IP background needed.

​An official side event of TechBBQ 2026, the morning before the summit opens. Breeze IP is a Challenger Partner; both of us are at Bella Center across 26–27 August.

​Coffee, fruit and pastries from 10.00. Limited space.

​LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group, which does not sponsor, authorise or endorse this event.nt.