Appleyard Lee

If a company proposes to launch a new product in Japan through a Japanese subsidiary and then to launch in other countries via other subsidiaries, can the parent company file the trade mark in Japan and then utilise the benefit of the Madrid Protocol? Would the Paris Convention provide better flexibility? What is the best solution to ensure that ownership remains with the parent company throughout the process?

What are the key practical issues for a business to consider when exploiting its intellectual property rights?

What fees are payable in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court in relation to key stages of proceedings?

When making a trade mark application, do you usually need to include class 16 to cover use of the mark on promotional leaflets etc?

Where a distributor sells a product, that has been put on the market in the EEA by the rightsholder and to which a registered trade mark has been applied, in an EEA state for a purpose that the product is not fit for, does the exhaustion of rights principle still apply or is this trade mark infringement?