Regional Trademarks

“Darjeeling Tea”- One of Four Foreign GIs Registered Under the Amended Trademark Law (April 2, 2009)

Three Years after the Regional Collective Trademark Law went into effect, the system is still not well known among foreign business associations. The Japan Patent Office announced in February, 2009, that 873 regional marks were registered since the law went into force in 2006, and only four of them were regional brand names from foreign [...]