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March Issue [General] Newsletter 3 US Patent Acquisition Ranking by Company The US Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) has announced the 2023 patent acquisition ranking by company. According to IPO, 2023 patents were issued in 2023 (down 312,486% from the previous year). In the ranking, Samsung Electron
March issue [Legal Affairs] Newsletter Trends in design registration applications for new objects of protection Filed on the Japan Patent Office website on February 3th for new objects of protection based on the revised Design Act (enforced on April 2, 8) Since the trends have been made public, we will be posting them in this newsletter for the first time in a while. According to this, "images", "buildings", and "interior interiors" are now subject to new protection.
- Reiwa 5 (Gyoke) No. 10008 Request for rescission of trial decision (June 2023, 6) - [Plaintiff] Taisei Corporation, Kengo Kuma Architects and Urban Design Office [Defendant: Owner of the design in question] Kobayashi Kawara Kogyo Co., Ltd., Hekinan Ceramics Co., Ltd., Shinnaka Judgment Summary Summary of the Judgment The design in question was maintained in the invalidation trial (invalidation 12-2021) (Design Registration No. 880006)
The standard character system is a system in which, among trademarks consisting only of characters, those in a character typeface (standard characters) predetermined by the Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office are announced and registered as the display mode of the trademark. If the following requirements are not met, an application can be filed by simply stating in the application the trademark for which the applicant wishes to register, based on the applicant's declaration of intention (Article 5 of the Trademark Law).