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JAPAN TELECOM vs. JAPAN TELECOM

By Marty Schwimmer on May 31, 2002
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You can guess from the caption that it’s about trademarks.   A Ninth Circuit case to cite when attempting to overcome a geographically misdescriptive objection: JAPAN TELECOM may not necessarily refer to Japan, but to the business’ Japanese-speaking customers.   

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Martin Schwimmer is a director and a founding partner of the U.S. office of Stobbs, an international IP law boutique, headquartered in Cambridge, U.K.

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