{"id":516,"date":"2018-08-29T12:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T03:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ksilawpat.jp\/\/?post_type=updates&amp;p=516"},"modified":"2018-08-29T12:23:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T03:23:29","slug":"court-decision-ppf","status":"publish","type":"updates","link":"http:\/\/ksilawpat.jp\/updates\/516\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Decision (PPF)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Meiryo UI'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">[Key issue] <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Meiryo UI'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">\u201c<span lang=\"EN-US\">A<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Meiryo UI'; font-size: 10.5pt;\"> trademark consists solely of a mark indicating, in a common manner, <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Meiryo UI'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">the<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Meiryo UI'; font-size: 10.5pt;\"> common name of the goods or services<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Meiryo UI'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">\u201d<span lang=\"EN-US\"> of <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Meiryo UI'; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Article 3(1)(i) of Trademark Act.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Meiryo UI'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">Court <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Meiryo UI'; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">rescinded a JPO&#8217;s invalidation-trial decision, <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Meiryo UI'; font-size: 10.5pt;\">stating that i<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Meiryo UI'; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">n the light of the usage of &#8220;PPF&#8221; on websites, etc. for goods &#8220;films in general for protection of the body surface of automobile&#8221; (the goods ), it was acknowledged that traders and consumers had recognized &#8220;PPF&#8221; as a general abbreviation of the goods.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","updates_tag":[3],"class_list":["post-516","updates","type-updates","status-publish","hentry","updates_tag-court-judgment"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ksilawpat.jp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/updates\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ksilawpat.jp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/updates"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ksilawpat.jp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/updates"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ksilawpat.jp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"updates_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ksilawpat.jp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/updates_tag?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}