The Tokyo District Court on Friday ordered U.S.-based Zoom Video Communications and its sales agent in Japan to pay a total of about ¥182 million in damages for violating the trademark of Japanese electric musical device developer Zoom Corp.
In the lawsuit, the Tokyo-based company claimed that the U.S. firm's logo had violated its trademark and demanded a total of ¥600 million in damages.
The court dismissed the plaintiff's request for an injunction against the use of the logo.
According to the ruling, the Japanese company registered a logo featuring its name written horizontally in the Roman alphabet as a trademark in 2006. The U.S.…