“Kumamoto Ikinari Dango” is a local confectionery from Kumamoto Prefecture, made of sliced sweet potato and red bean paste wrapped in a thin wheat flour skin in the shape of a manju.
The federal government has violated the First Amendment by refusing to register trademarks that officials consider disparaging, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in a decision that provides a boost to the Washington Redskins’ efforts to hang on to the team’s controversial name.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal trademark law banning offensive names is unconstitutional, siding with a rock band whose name had been deemed racially disparaging by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The Global Brand Database now includes includes the national collection of Chile with over 432,000 new records that were filed after 2005. This brings to 34 the number of national offices whose data is available in the Global Brand Database.
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In connection with the privatization of the Osaka Municipal Subway scheduled for April 2018, it has been revealed that the city of Osaka has applied to the Patent Office for trademark registration of the names “Osaka Metro” and “Osaka Subway.”
CSD(Common Status Descriptors)プロジェクトは、公報にも最近ゴールデンウイーク前後から日本や中国、米国の検索サイトには表れてきている表示で、TM5でほぼ共通の状態アイコンを使用して、視覚的に短い時間で、出願人、権利者、代理人が状態(status)を認識するための表示です。Common Status Descriptors (CSD) iconsの一覧表、緑はalive, 赤はdeadは共通で、ファイルがあれば継続中、登録にはシール(蝋をとかしたスタイルの形状)が使用されます。TESSではstatusのタブを表示することで現れます。