Trademarks - Japan

Trademarks - Japan

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Words in Trademark
You can find out if there are marks matching a whole word (book) or a whole phrase (mr peanut), words starting with a specific word (note, notebook, notepad, notepaper, etc.), words ending with a specific word (book, notebook, powerbook, schoolbook, etc.), or words containing a string of letters anywhere in the mark (book, notebook, bookmark, notebookmark, etc.).
Trademarks consisting of corrupted spellings (e.g, WEB-TITE), unconventional presentations of words or compound words (e.g., ACTIVEXPRESS), non-Latin characters, or non-English language words are also searchable by variant forms of the words within the mark. For example, ACTIVEXPRESS is also searchable by the words ACTIVE and EXPRESS; the mark WEB-TITE can be searched with the hyphen removed as WEBTITE as well as by the correct spellings of words within the mark, e.g., WEB and TIGHT. Note: to search the exact mark including the hyphen or other punctuation (WEB-TITE) use the Exact Trademark search option.
Exact Trademark
You can search a complete trademark name, but you must enter it with its exact punctuation. Example: IT'S A BOY'S LIFE
International Class
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Owner
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Registration or Application Number
Enter the Registration number without punctuation and spaces. Example: 2300009
Enter the Application (Serial) Number with or without the dash. Each Emperor Year serial number is prefixed with the first letter of that era's emperor: M=Meji, T=Taigo, S=Showa and H=Heisei. All serial numbers from 2000 onwards use the Western Year. Serial numbers are also indexed without year digits. Examples: S05-008552, S05008552, 008552, 2000-018734, 2000018734, 018734
Content
You can restrict the search to trademarks containing designs (and graphical images when available) or stylized letters. Sound marks can be searched as word marks.
Status and Year
You can search any marks or restrict to "active" marks (includes pending or registered) or "inactive" marks (includes abandoned, cancelled or expired), with or without specifying years.

Sources
TRADEMARKSCAN® Japan, produced by Thomson CompuMark, contains information on both active and inactive trademarks registered with the Japanese Patent Office.