U.S. firm Zoom ordered to pay Japan company Zoom for trademark infringement

A Japanese court on Friday ordered the major U.S. videoconferencing firm Zoom Communications Inc. to pay about 160 million yen ($1 million) to the Japanese audio company Zoom Corp. for trademark infringement due to their similar logos but stopped short of prohibiting the former from using the likeness.The Tokyo District Court also ordered NEC Networks & System Integration Corp., the service distributor of Zoom Communications in Japan, to pay around 16 million yen in damages.The Japanese Zoom had filed a lawsuit requesting the U.S. communications company stop using its logo, citing the simil…READ FULL ARTICLE