Article 10, paragraph 1 of
the Japanese Trademark Act has been revised to more clearly delimit the
requirements for a divisional application for a trademark registration. Any
divisional application(s) filed on or after June 9, 2018 is (are) derived from
a parent application for trademark registration whose filing fees have already been paid.
Previously, if the parent
application was merely pending (whether the fees were paid or not was of no
consequence), a divisional application for a trademark registration could also
be deemed to have the same priority date as the parent.