[Trademark] 2023 (Gyo-Ke) 10018, “Pleasure” <Shoji>

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First published on this website: 2026-11-01

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Originally published on Ameblo: 2024-09-21 (Japan time). Full English translation.

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[Trademark] 2023 (Gyo-Ke) 10018, “Pleasure” <Shoji>

*Even if evidence of use was not submitted during a nonuse cancellation trial, it may be submitted in an action to set aside the trial decision.

⇒ Use established (trial decision set aside)

“In the case decided by the Supreme Court in 1991, too … no allegation or proof of trademark use was made … at the trial-proceeding stage.”

https://www.courts.go.jp/app/files/hanrei_jp/746/092746_hanrei.pdf

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