“Common Law” trademark protection in Japan?
By Jiri M. Mestecky & Koya Uemura
Intellectual Property,
August 2003
There is a common misperception among intellectual property attorneys and businesspeople in "common law" countries, such as the United States, that "civil law" countries, such as Japan, France, Germany and others, provide little or no protection for unregistered trademarks.
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