Date of
Judgment: September
10, 1993
Issuing
Authority:
Supreme Court
Level of
the Issuing Authority: Final Instance
Type of
Procedure: Judicial(Administrative)
Subject
Matter: Trademarks
Summary
of the judgment (decision):
With
regard to a trademark "SEIKO EYE," for which watches, eyeglasses,
etc. are designated, and which comprises of the combination of the set of
characters "SEIKO," an indication of the abbreviated version of the
goods name or trade name of a famous manufacturer of watches and other items in
Japan, and the set of characters "EYE," a general and universal set
of characters that is closely related to eyeglasses, the set of characters
"EYE" does not independently give rise to any pronunciation or
concept as an identifier of the source of goods.