However, Mrs Justice Clarke said there "was not a scrap of evidence" John Lewis or the agency had seen Ms Evans' story before the legal battle started.
While the judge accepted both stories focused on "a friendly dragon which finds it difficult to control its fire", she ruled these are "entirely commonplace features, almost ubiquitous in depictions of dragons".
"The similarities between Fred The Fire-Sneezing Dragon on the one hand and Excitable Edgar are few in number and can easily be explained by coincidence rather than copying."
She added: "There can be no copying if the work alleged to have been copied has not been accessed (i.e. seen, in this case) by those said to have copied it."
"I am satisfied on the balance of probabilities that… there can have been no บาคาร่าคาสิโน