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On the 14th of this month, SOURCE MUSIC, a subsidiary of HYBE, recently requested a trademark application for "G-Friend", but was notified by the Japan Patent Office of refusal. The JPO has sent a notice of opinion submission to SOURCE MUSIC regarding the refusal of trademark registration application.
The JPO has applied for the trademark "G-Friends", which is similar to the English name "GFRIEND" of "Yojachingu", which is the name of the 6-member female singer group in South Korea. Judging that there was, I declined the application.
To this, SOURCE MUSIC said that the application for trademark rights of "Yojachingu" and "G-Friend" was rejected, because there was a certain possibility that "GFRIEND" could be reunited and acted as "GFRIEND". be. An example similar to this is "T-ARA".
Prior to this, in May last year, SOURCE MUSIC filed a trademark application for the names "Yojachingu" and "GFRIEND" with the Patent Office. "Yojaching" is posted on January 23, 2015, and "GFRIEND" is posted on March 11, 2021. SOURCE MUSIC has acquired the trademark right for the "GFRIEND" logo.
After that, SOURCE MUSIC announced the end of "GFRIEND" and the ExclusIVE Contract. Suddenly notified the dissolution.
Yuju and Yerin, who were members of this, are working as solos. So-jeong is active as an actor under the name “Kim So-jeong”, and the remaining members Una, SinB, and UMJI continue to be active as “VIVIZ”.
With SOURCE MUSIC's refusal to apply for a trademark right, it will be interesting to see if "GFRIEND" can be reunited.
2022/07/26 15:00 KST
