Announcements

Trademark Case No.83 The “Nepal Tiger” case(Consideration of Descriptive Trademarks, Comparison with the “Tibet Tiger” and “hololive Indonesia” Cases)

Q&A Practice for Prevention and Treatment of Intellectual Property Troubles “Cross License Agreements – Strategic Use and Legal Considerations “

The strategies of managements and branding and the activities for assertion and proof in intellectual property litigation――suggestions from the recent precedents of the Japanese IP high court

Trademark Case No.82 “Sushizanmai” Case(Cross-Border Enterprise Activities and Intellectual Property Disputes)

“Q&A Practice for Prevention and Treatment of Intellectual Property Troubles” Rights of prior use in the Trademark Act and the Unfair Competition Prevent Act

Q&A Practice for Prevention and Treatment of Intellectual Property Troubles “Measures against infringements of trademark rights through the distribution of counterfeit goods in foreign countries

Q&A Practice for Prevention and Treatment of Intellectual Property Troubles “Concerning a case that the other company sales its product with a name similar to the name of one’s own products registered as a trademark”

Trademark Case No.80 “Tikyu Gumi” Case ――Popular Name and the Article 4(1)10 of the Trademark Act

Q&A Practice for Prevention and Treatment of Intellectual Property Troubles “Existence of prior registered trademarks and the Consent System. “

Assessment of Similarity with a Composite Trademark

Emi AOSHIMA wrote part of reports of recent JPO Trial & Appeal Cases

Judgement about the case whose issues contain the recognition of the concept of the Japanese word listed in the Japanese Dictionary was presented

Trademark Case No. 66 “Sohonke Surugaya” Case for Cancellation of Trial Decision

IP STARS 2022 Recommends Members of YUASA AND HARA

Emi Aoshima wrote part of reports of recent JPO Trial & Appeal Cases

Our firm and attorneys of our firm received high evaluation at “World Trademark Review (2022)“.

Emi Aoshima wrote part of reports of recent JPO Trial & Appeal Cases

Revision of Official Fees Relating to Trademarks and Designs (effective from April 1, 2022)

YUASA and HARA has been ranked Tier 1 for Patent Prosecution & Contentious and Trademark Prosecution by Managing Intellectual Property in 2021

YUASA and HARA has been ranked Tier 1 for Patent and Trademark Prosecution and Contentious by Managing Intellectual Property in 2020

YUASA and HARA has been ranked Tier 1 for Patent and Trademark Prosecution and Contentious by Managing Intellectual Property in 2019

SUMITANI, Yuji

TAKAHASHI, Masafumi

“Hakusa Seishou” judgement (case in which a prior use right and misuse of right were judged)

Revision of the Trademark Examination Manual (effective since April 2, 2018)

“BIKE LIFTER” judgement (Description in metatag and infringement of trademark right)

Selection of Trademark

Our members were recommended by Who’s Who Legal: Trademark 2017 and Who’s Who Legal: Japan 2017.

Revision of the Accelerated Examination Guidelines (since February, 2017)

Court Case Review (Trademark):“REEBOK ROYAL FLAG case” (2016) Publication carrying this article Patent News No. 14287Publisher Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry

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