SHINHWA succeeds in fully recovering their trademark rights

SHINHWA succeeded in fully recovering their trademark rights.

On May 27th, representatives of K-Pop idol group SHINHWA's management agency, SHINCOM Entertainment (previously known as SHINHWA Company), and JUN Media (previously known as Open World Entertainment) attended a mediation that was held at Seoul High Court, and accepted the mediation plan issued by the justice department of Korea.

As both companies failed to resolve the trademark rights issue last month, the justice department had ordered a compulsory arbitration to both companies. However, SHINCOM Entertainment made an objection to the order, and the two companies decided to accept the mediation plan issued by the justice department during the mediation that was held on May 27th.

JUN Media and SHINCOME Entertainment have been in legal disputes against each other since 2012, and SHINCOM Entertainment managed to win a few case last year, However, they lodged appeals for the other cases in which they had lost.

In order to prevent engendering further possible infringements, SHINHWA only included their group logo on albums that were released after 2013, and they also changed the name of their management agency from SHINHWA Company to SHINCOM Entertainment.

The mediation plan issued by the Seoul High Court supports complete cession of SHINHWA's trademark rights from JUN Entertainment to SHINCOM Entertainment, and this will allow SHINHWA to change the name of their management agency back to SHINHWA Company.

Meanwhile, SHINHWA is going to hold a solo concert in Nanjing, China on June 20th.

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