A new visual search facility is now available in TMview, the world’s largest free, online trade mark database. It is now possible to search over five million trade marks from EUIPO, the Institut national de la propriété industrielle (INPI) and the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) within TMview using images.
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Komagane’s local gourmet is sauce katsudon. “Komagane Sauce Katsudon” is a rice bowl topped with shredded cabbage and tonkatsu dipped in a secret sauce.
The online giant filed four applications for trademark slogans with the UK’s Intellectual Property Office, including “No Queue, No Checkout. (No, Seriously)” and “Every Queue is a Defect”.
Regarding the Geographical Indication (GI) system, which is a focus of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations between Japan and the European Union (EU), the EU side uses multiple expressions in product names, such as “Parmesan cheese”, which has become established in Japan. It was revealed through interviews with government officials on the 18th that Japan had been informed of its intention to allow the government to do so.
