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Tokyo District Court, Judgment dated December 27, 2018, 平成29(ワ)22543 Case seeking injunction against trademark infringement (“Lamp shade” case)

In February 2016, a lighting manufacturer, Louis Poulsen, has acquired trademark right on three-dimensional trademark with respect to the shape of their lighting titled “PH5”. This lighting “PH5” was designed by a lighting designer, Paul Henningsen (1894-1967).The present case was brought before Tokyo District Court by Louis Poulsen, based on the above-identified trademark right, against a company manufacturing and selling replica furniture, to seek an injunction and compensation for damages.The court has found that the defendant has infringed trademark of the plaintiff, and granted injunction of the replica furniture and compensation for damages.

“The threads that hold the fabric of science together”: The origins and importance of analyzing citation data

This is an adapted excerpt from David Pendlebury’s contributed chapter in the recently published Handbook Bibliometrics. His chapter explores how Eugene Garfield and his Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)™ helped revolutionize information retrieval in the second half of the twentieth century by introducing the concept of citation indexing for scientific literature.   The history, sociology […]