BrandCat's global trademark coverage just expanded again.
BrandCat now supports trademark monitoring from the Japan Patent Office (JPO). 🇯🇵
Japan is one of the world's most important IP jurisdictions and a key market for international brands. With JPO now included, BrandCat users can monitor Japanese trademark filings alongside all other supported offices from a single dashboard.
Fun detail: Fullwidth Latin characters are common in Japanese typography. BrandCat normalizes them automatically, so searching for "ＤＵＯＬＩＮＧＯ" and "DUOLINGO" returns identical results.
Why JPO Matters
Japan may not be the largest trademark office in the world by raw filing volume, but it remains one of the most commercially influential jurisdictions.
Japan accounts for roughly 2% of the world's trademark registrations, placing it around #10 globally in trademark activity.
That makes JPO an important addition for brand owners, startups, and companies monitoring:
- international expansion signals
- copycat registrations
- localized branding attempts
- competitor filings
- transliterations and phonetic matches
If you operate in consumer products, technology, SaaS, electronics, entertainment, or e-commerce, Japan is simply a market you can't afford to ignore.
🔍 What the JPO Integration Includes
The JPO integration provides coverage of Japanese trademark data, including:
- Monitoring of newly filed trademark applications
- Status changes and lifecycle events
- Application and registration numbers
- Filing, registration, and expiry dates
- Owner information (as published)
- Nice class classifications
- Unified trademark detail views inside BrandCat
As with all other jurisdictions, JPO results are displayed inside the same normalized trademark detail format, making it easy to compare trademark activity across countries without jumping between separate government portals.
🌍 BrandCat's Supported Trademark Offices
With JPO added, BrandCat now monitors trademark filings across 9 major jurisdictions:
- 🇺🇸 United States - USPTO
- 🇨🇳 China - CNIPA
- 🇪🇺 European Union - EUIPO
- 🇨🇦 Canada - CIPO
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - UKIPO
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland - IGE / SwissReg
- 🇦🇺 Australia - IP Australia
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand - IPONZ
- 🇯🇵 Japan - JPO
This selection covers many of the world's most commercially active trademark markets, including several of the highest-value jurisdictions for international brand protection.
What This Means for Brand Owners
With JPO coverage now live, BrandCat users can:
- detect trademark filings in Japan earlier
- monitor Japan alongside the US, EU, China, and other key markets
- spot copycats and lookalike brands before they reach registration
- strengthen global trademark defense strategies without additional tools
No extra setup is needed. If you're already monitoring keywords on BrandCat, Japan is automatically included.
🚀 What's Next
JPO is another major step in BrandCat's roadmap toward broader global coverage.
We're continuing to expand BrandCat's monitoring system and improve:
- cross-jurisdiction normalization
- matching accuracy
- phonetic and partial-name detection
- alert quality and reporting clarity
If there's a jurisdiction you'd like to see added next, feel free to reach out to us through our contact form:
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