In law,
A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device which is used in trade with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others. Trademark rights may be used to prevent others from using a confusingly similar mark, but not to prevent others from making the same goods or from selling the same goods or services under a clearly different mark.
Copyright is a form of protection provided to the authors of “original works of authorship” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, both published and unpublished. The copyright protects the form of expression rather than the subject matter of the writing.
relax everyone..
This just means that if you use a the word cosplay in conjunction with your event, it has better have SCC SQUARE as part of it.
However, the application was without phonetic equivalent, no translation, no otherstuff.
It means that if you use other forms and they can't stop you. for example, ko-su-pu-re (こすぷれ )or costume play. This is in direct reference to your title. If you choose to name your project The Masquerade, but it's actually a cosplay competition, they can't do anything about it even if it's widely recognised as another cosplay competition. For example, CosFest doesn't not infringe on anything.
However, usually such associations are quite niao about it. if you got around their barrier, they'll get nasty to you. like ask you to register with them (pay them money), or get them to endorse you (pay them money), or face the consequence of them getting their members to boycott your competition. *shrug* that's the way it is in the world. when people try to profit from others.
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