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First GUI / Building / Interior Designs Published [ Japan Trademark / Design Update ]

2020.11.10

First GUI/Building/Interior Designs Published
[Japan Trademark / Design Update]

GUI Design Registration

On November 9, the Japan Patent Office (JPO) published its first GUI design registration under the Revised Design Act which was introduced in April, from among the 450 GUI design applications filed until October 1. The published GUI design registration is as follows:

[GUI Design] Image for Displaying Vehicle Information

Design Registration No. 1672383 for “Image for Vehicle Information Display”

by Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Building/Interior Design Registrations

Last week, the JPO already announced its first building/interior design registrations below including Uniqlo’s “UNIQLO PARK” in Yokohama – for which Kashiwa Sato, a famous Creative Director, shaped the grand design, and Sou Fujimoto, a famous architect, supervised the project’s design.

[Building Design] UNIQLO PARK Yokohama Bayside Store

Design Registration No. 1671773 for “Commercial facilities”

by Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.

Source: UNIQLO website

[Building Design] ecute Ueno (Ueno Station Building)

Design Registration No. 1671774 for “Station Building”

by East Japan Railway Company

Source: East Japan Railway Company Website

Kashiwa Sato also performed design services for Kura Sushi, the second largest conveyor belt sushi restaurant chain in Japan, and Kura Sushi’s interior design of its global flagship restaurant in Asakusa district was registered as one of the first interior design registrations in Japan.

[Interior Design] Kura Sushi’s Global Flagship Store in Asakusa