{"id":2757,"date":"2025-04-07T12:14:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T03:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2025-04-07T12:14:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T03:14:38","slug":"the-first-trademark-registration-where-letter-of-consent-loc-was-applied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/en\/en-trademarks\/the-first-trademark-registration-where-letter-of-consent-loc-was-applied\/","title":{"rendered":"The first trademark registration where Letter of Consent (LOC) was applied"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japan Patent Office announced that trademark registration was granted to a trademark application where Letter of Consent was applied. It is the first case of trademark registration since JPO revised the Japan Trademark Law and adopted LOC in April 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following is the first trademark registration where Letter of Consent (LOC) was applied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2760\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And the cited trademark is as follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2761\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The above information is quoted from the news release by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meti.go.jp\/press\/2025\/04\/20250407001\/20250407001.html\">https:\/\/www.meti.go.jp\/press\/2025\/04\/20250407001\/20250407001.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under JPO\u2019s practice, in addition to a letter of consent, applicants need to submit supplementary documents, such as agreement between applicant and earlier trademark owner, to prove that applied mark and earlier trademark would not cause a confusion not only at present but in future. Applicants may also file an argument if necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though JPO has introduced LOC into examination practice, examiners have discretion to refuse applied mark, even after filing a letter of consent and other documents, when applied marks are likely to cause confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some alternative ways to overcome refusal reason (Article 4-1-11), such as \u201cAssignment Back\u201d (temporally transferring the right related to applied mark to earlier trademark owner and assigning it back to applicant after JPO decided to grant a trademark registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan Patent Office announced that trademark registration was granted to a trademark application where Letter of Consent was applied. It is the first case of trademark registration since JPO revised the Japan Trademark Law and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/?p=2757","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en-trademarks","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sakae-pat.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}