How to respond to
a “Notification of Provisional Refusal”
issued by the JPO under the Madrid System
A trademark which falls within the category of trademarks registrable under the Trademark Act is a trademark which is used now or which is intended to be used in the near future.
The veracity of use or intention of use of the trademark in regard to all the designated goods and services is doubted if the range of the goods and services listed in one class is too wide.
Therefore, such an application does not conform to the requirements as provided in the principal paragraph of Section 3(1) of the Trademark Act.
