TOKYO —

Yabaton, a Japanese pork cutlet restaurant chain, has settled with a South Korean restaurant over trademark violation dispute, President Takayuki Suzuki said. Suzuki last week Wednesday concluded a contract in Daejeon, South Korea, with the South Korean pork cutlet restaurant to take over its trademark rights.

According to Suzuki and other sources, the South Korean restaurant put Yabaton’s logo on its signs and used the same Yabaton pig character and registered them as its trademarks.
Yabaton, based in the central Japan city of Nagoya and known for pork cutlets with miso sauce, filed a petition against the move with South Korean patent authorities in February.

Since little progress was made, the company filed for an injunction with South Korea’s fair trade commission against the use of Yabaton’s trademarks on July 7.

Under the settlement, the South Korean restaurant will remove the signboard within three months and change its name, while Yabaton will withdraw the injunction application.

JCN

2 Comments

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  Damax6 at 07:47 PM JST - 20th July

  when will koreans be original and stop copying japanese products. they copy everything the japanese make..be Original, if you dont wanna eat american beef DONT buy it some koreans want american beef, korean alway fight for silly stuff, take a chill pill

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  timeon at 11:20 AM JST - 21st July

  that reminded me of a funny copy case: Korean and Taiwanese TV copy the variety shows from Japanese TV, evident even for me who I don't watch too much TV. I don't know, maybe they pay copyrights, but I really doubt it

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