The Asia Trademark Alliance (ATA) started a new service. When we handle a response to your notification of refusal of a registration via the Madrid Protocol issued by the Japan Patent Office, our fees are based upon success.
Currently, it is common to use the Madrid Protocol to obtain a trademark...
According to the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with America, it has been recognized that marks which are not visually perceptible also help to identify the origin of a product. In light of this, it was decided in a revision of the Korean trademark law in 2011 that it is possible to obtain a trademark...
In addition to the one stop service offered for patents by APA, we established the Asia Trademark Alliance (ATA) website to focus on the recently increasing demands for trademark registrations and trademark right maintenance services. We will enrich handling trademarks for Japan, China and Korea, as...
In order to answer the demands for obtaining trademark rights quickly, it has been decided that Trademark Law Article 4 Section 1.13, which rejects registration of a trademark by a third party for the year following cancellation, will be abolished. The provision formally forbade registration of...
In June 2010, the International Affairs Division of the Japan Patent Office (JPO) released results of an investigation into trademark applications for Japanese place names filed by third parties having no relation to such places in China and Taiwan.
The registering of Japanese place names as...
