Section 5: Trademark & Design Protection Systems

 

This section touches on Japan's trademark and design protection systems, registration vehicles, periods of protection, and trademark and design registration procedures. 

 

5.1  Legislation on Trademark and Design

5.2  Japan’s Trademark System

5.3  Validity and Term of Trademark Registration

5.4  Cancellation of Trademarks

5.5  The Registration Process

5.6  International Registration of Trademarks

5.7  Protection of Designs

5.8  The Registration Process

5.9  International Registration of Industrial Designs

 

5.9 International Registration of Industrial Designs
Due to acceding to Geneva Act of Hague Agreement concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs, Japan Patent office has introduced the International Registration of Industrial Designs. According to a revision of the Industrial Design Law in 2014, it is possible to file a design application with multiple offices overseas in one procedure simultaneously. The Hague Agreement took effect on May 13, 2015 and has entered into force since the same day.