Japan - Commencement of filing for new types of Trademarks
In Japan the law to
register new types of trademarks, which are Sound mark, Color mark
without delineated contours, Position mark, Motion mark and Hologram
mark, came into force on April 1, 2015. The Japan Patent Office (JPO)
began receiving applications for the new types of trademarks on the same
day.
The J-PlatPat has
enabled users to search trademark information by type since May 19. The
users are able to narrow down the result list to specific types of
trademarks by clicking on the checkboxes to select the types of
trademarks. More
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