Nikon trademarked a new logo – what do you think it is for?

Nikon trademarked a new logo in Japan:



Some of the linked classification documents (16.3.1) are labeled as “Photographic or cinematographic apparatus, projection apparatus and lanterns including video cameras and photographic lenses“.

The detailed description is very broad:

(190)[Publication country] Japan Patent Office (JP)

(441)[Date of publication of application] Reiwa 5(2023) February 1 (2023.2.1)

[Kind of official gazette] Publicaiton of Unexamined Trademark Application

(210)[Application number] T2023-6460

(220)[Filing date] 2023.1.24

(540) [Trademark]

(511)[Classes of goods and services and designated goods or designated services]

No.9Kind [ cameras, photographic machines and apparatus, cinematographic machines and apparatus optical machines and apparatus, cameras, measuring or testing machines and instruments, an image inspection device, and an image processing function provided with application software, the computer software for image processings, computer software, smart cameras, and an image processing function ] The inspection apparatus united with the cameras which it had, telecommunication machines and apparatus, digital cameras, an image processing system, the image processing system united with cameras, electronic machines [apparatus and their parts]

(731) [Applicant]

[Identification number] 000004112

[Name] NIKON CORPORATION

[Name (in original language)] NIKON CORPORATION

(740) [Representative]

[Identification number] 100120031

[Patent attorney]

[Name] MIYAJIMA, Manabu

(740) [Representative]

[Identification number] 100096688

[Patent attorney]

[Name] MOTOMIYA, Teruhisa

(740) [Representative]

[Identification number] 100199853

[Patent attorney]

[Name] SARUYAMA, Jumpei (source: Japan Platform for Patent Information)

What do you think?

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