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U.S. video conferencing carrier, Japanese audio gear maker in tussle

A prison battle over the “Zoom” title has ensnared a Japanese maker of tune instruments, upper left, the U.S.-basically based fully mostly video conferencing system, upper pleasing, and a Japanese stationery maker.

ERIKO SHIBUYA, Nikkei group authorJune 16, 2023 09:24 JST | Japan

TOKYO — A prison battle between Zoom, the U.S.-basically based fully mostly video conferencing system, and a Japanese audio instruments producer of the identical title has turned proper into a quagmire.

Litigation started in the Tokyo District Court in the autumn of 2021 and the dispute now spans 29 worldwide locations. The topic is further traumatic by the unexpected involvement of 1 other celebration: Tombow Pencil, a Japanese producer of stationery merchandise. One other component complicating the dispute is that Japanese trademark guidelines related to computer purposes have not saved bolt with the digitization of industry.

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