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wagyl wrote:... and Matsuki employs the sort of thinking which gets Kyushu ALTs in hot water.
Trademark infringement occurs when one party uses a trademark that is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark owned by another party, in relation to products or services which are identical or similar to the products or services of the other party. In many countries, a trademark receives protection without registration, but registering a trademark provides legal advantages for enforcement. Infringement can be addressed by civil litigation and, in several jurisdictions, under criminal law.[44][50]
wagyl wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:wagyl wrote:Based on the use of the word "arrest" and the involvement of the police, this is not a civil matter.
It should be though.
The International Olympic Committee is notorious for forcing stronger protections over its intellectual property, including demanding special legislation and rights. The fact that they have got a specialist, dedicated unit in the Metropolitan Police is just one example.
wagyl wrote:Actually, I was referring to 警視庁 but thank you for introducing me to Football Against Fakes.
Wage Slave wrote:I've been mildly curious about what TM and TM in a circle means for a while so I had a little look. For a starters:Trademark infringement occurs when one party uses a trademark that is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark owned by another party, in relation to products or services which are identical or similar to the products or services of the other party. In many countries, a trademark receives protection without registration, but registering a trademark provides legal advantages for enforcement. Infringement can be addressed by civil litigation and, in several jurisdictions, under criminal law.[44][50]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property
So it isn't compulsory to register your trademark to have legal protection and hence there is no requirement to add a TM mark. A simple TM mark indicates you are asserting that your image or expression is a trademark. A TM in a circle, at least in the US, means it has been registered as a trademark.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_symbol
It seems that in Japan and the UK, companies and organisations that are confident in their trademark see no need to clutter the design on every single use with a TM mark. American companies appear to see more need - perhaps it is significantly more difficult to enforce it without a mark in the US.
Use of the registration symbol or other notice is not mandatory in every jurisdiction; however, it is important, not only because it provides notice of the owner’s trademark rights but also because it may allow the owner to assert certain types of damages in lawsuits against infringers. For instance, in the United States, failure to use a registration notice limits the remedies available to a trademark owner in a lawsuit. Failure to use a registration notice may prevent a plaintiff from recovering damages and profits in a suit for infringement if the defendant is not shown to have actual notice of the registration.
Marking may also help a trademark owner maintain its rights in the mark by avoiding descriptive use of the mark in advertising and labeling. Such use can lead to “genericide,” the process by which a mark loses its distinctiveness when consumers use the mark as the “name” of the product or service.
wagyl wrote:Candidate city merchandise is made and sold, and has a market. My guess is that they rely on brute force Olympic remedies, better than the puny remedies available to the rest of us.
By the way, Kyushu ALT is 53 years old. Apparently he had about one customer a month.
wagyl wrote:... which is possibly part of the reason that this is a criminal charge. If they were relying on commercial damage we are probably talking 36 yen.
As trademark infringement is punishable by 5 years or less imprisonment or by fines of 5,000,000 yen or less, criminal prosecution may be involved in a trademark infringement case (Trademark Law Article 78). As for corporations, there is a so called dual liability provision, which provides that when an employee commits an offense of infringement of a trade mark right in connection to the corporation's business, a fine is imposed on the juristic person in addition to the penalty for the infringer (Trademark Law Article 82).
A criminal suit can also be filed, but is effective only if the subject products infringe a relatively simple patent, a utility model, a design right or a trademark right.
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike on Saturday visited a boat race course in Miyagi Prefecture, a facility emerging as an alternative venue for the rowing and canoe sprint events at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games.
“Based on this visit, I will start considering venues,” Koike told reporters after inspecting facilities at the Naganuma rowing course in the city of Tome, more than 400 kilometers from Tokyo. Miyagi is one of the prefectures in northeastern Japan hit hardest by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Games organizers and the International Rowing Federation had already approved the Sea Forest Waterway venue to be constructed on Tokyo Bay, but a metropolitan government cost review panel recommended last month that plan be reconsidered.
dimwit wrote:... There are perfectly adequate {rowing} facilities in Saitama where they regularly hold national rowing competitions.
Taro Toporific wrote:Damn, I have been wondering why Saitama rowing facilities were not being considered.
The International Olympic Committee is considering moving the rowing and canoeing events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to South Korea in an attempt to cut soaring costs, according to Japanese media reports.
Depriving Japan of the events risks provoking a backlash from the Tokyo 2020 organisers, and would make a mockery of the city’s vow to hold a “compact” Games.
Kyodo News and the Asahi Shimbun on Tuesday cited unnamed sources as saying that the events could be held in the South Korean city of Chungju – one of the venues for the 2014 Asian Games – if organisers and Tokyo’s governor, Yuriko Koike, fail to agree on a site in Japan.
The option of moving the sports out of the country is reportedly being considered after a panel of experts Koike set up to review costs recently proposed moving the rowing and canoe sprint several hundred miles from the capital to a venue in north-east Japan, rather than building a new venue in Tokyo Bay.
The panel also suggested renovating existing venues in Tokyo for volleyball and swimming and scrapping plans to construct new stadia for the sports. It put the cost of hosting Tokyo 2020 at 3 trillion yen (£23bn), four times the original estimate and almost three times higher than London 2012.
Koike became Tokyo’s first female governor in July after promising to slash wasteful spending. But by targeting the Olympics as one area in which savings could be made, she risks alienating Games organisers and sports federations that have called for rowing, swimming and volleyball to be kept in Tokyo.
In a meeting with the IOC president, Thomas Bach, in Tokyo on Tuesday, Koike said the public supported her economy drive. “When I won the election two months ago, I swore to the public that the spending for the Olympics and Paralympics needed to be reviewed,” Koike said, according to Kyodo.
Koike said she would conclude her review of the three Olympic venues by the end of the month.
Bach refused to comment on “media rumours” about rowing’s possible switch to South Korea, but said the IOC was willing to work with Koike to reduce spiralling costs.
“The Tokyo metropolitan government will finalise its internal study, then we’ll discuss it with the other stakeholders ... and then I am confident that you will see a significant reduction in the cost compared to what we have seen so far from the press,” he told reporters.
The controversy over the rowing and canoe-kayak sprint competitions deepened on Tuesday after the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper claimed that the Tokyo metropolitan government had lied to the IOC about the cost of building permanent facilities for the events.
The paper said Tokyo government officials had dramatically understated construction costs in a report to the IOC, allegedly to ensure the sports would be held in the capital.
The Mainichi report quoted Tokyo government documents showing that building Sea Forest, a new rowing and canoeing facility in Tokyo Bay, would cost 25 billion yen. The estimate given to the IOC, however, was 9.8 billion yen.
“The IOC pointed out that our expenses were too high, so we gave them an unfounded figure,” the Mainichi quoted a senior Tokyo metropolitan government official as saying.
The total cost of building the Sea Forest venue, including surrounding parks and other “legacy” infrastructure, has been estimated at 49.1 billion yen. Government officials, however, said on Tuesday they should be able reduce that figure to 30 billion yen by shrinking the size of some facilities.
Olympic organisers and the International Rowing Federations are dismayed by the prospect of the event being held either in Naganuma Boat Park in Tome, Miyagi – one of three prefectures hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami – or in South Korea.
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Russell wrote:LOL
If it goes on like that, all of the Tokyo Olympics will be held in South-Korea...
“The IOC pointed out that our expenses were too high, so we gave them an unfounded figure,” the Mainichi quoted a senior Tokyo metropolitan government official as saying.
wagyl wrote:Watch out! LA will be left holding the time bomb!
Giovanni Malago, the president of the Italian Olympic Committee, was scathing of Miss Raggi’s announcement. "Don't talk about things you know nothing about," he said, urging the mayor not to put the motion before the city assembly.
Engineers hope to light Olympic cauldron with a flying car
The Asahi Shimbun | Oct. 20, 2016
...The automotive and aviation engineers are aiming to run their vehicle on the track of the new National Stadium and fly it to the Olympic cauldron to light the flame at the opening ceremony....
...To develop a car that can be both driven and flown, a group of 20 engineers ranging in age from 26 to 35, which calls itself Cart!vator, is conducting experiments at a disused school deep in the mountains....
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Taro Toporific wrote::thumbs:
"Dude, where's my flying car?"Engineers hope to light Olympic cauldron with a flying car
The Asahi Shimbun | Oct. 20, 2016
...The automotive and aviation engineers are aiming to run their vehicle on the track of the new National Stadium and fly it to the Olympic cauldron to light the flame at the opening ceremony....
...To develop a car that can be both driven and flown, a group of 20 engineers ranging in age from 26 to 35, which calls itself Cart!vator, is conducting experiments at a disused school deep in the mountains....
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Takechanpoo wrote:its because seems like japanese programming skill is below 3rd world.
Grumpy Gramps wrote:If everything goes after The Big Master Plan, we might even have flying tanks in Japan by 2020
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