TITLE	Supreme Court Decision 2011Hu958 decided December 13, 2012 [Registration Refusal (Trademark)] [full Text]
Summary
[1] The legislative purpose of Article 6 (1)-4 of the Trademark Act; and in a case where a conspicuous geographical name etc. is combined with a descriptive mark etc., whether the circumstance itself excludes the case from being subject to the aforementioned provision (negative in principle); and the meaning of the term ""conspicuous geographical name"" mentioned in the aforementioned provision [2] In a case where foreign corporation Gap applied for trademark registration for "" ,"" but was refused by the Korean Intellectual Property Office on grounds that the applied trademark constitutes Article 6 (1)-4 of the Trademark Act; the aforementioned applied trademark was indeed deemed to constitute the aforementioned provision since it may be recognized as ""GEORGIA,"" a conspicuous geographical name

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