The trademark STS was filed by SENERGY TECHNICAL SERVICES LIMITED, a corporation established under the laws of Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on April 1, 2020, and received one opposition filed on May 28, 2020 by STS Spezial-Transformatoren-Stockach, GmbH & Co. KG on (a) Identity of marks and Goods and Services, (b) Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by WESTPHAL, MUSSGNUG & PARTNER, PATENTANWÄLTE MIT BESCHRÄNKTER BERUFSHAFTUNG and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued May 28, 2020
The application was filed in English, and English was also language of all opposition proceedings (French was selected as the second language).
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 36 with following description of goods:
Valuation services
Valuation of machinery
Financial advice and consultancy services
Financial information, data, advice and consultancy services
Financial consultancy and advisory services.
The mark was filed in class 40 with Consultancy services relating to the generation of electrical power, unrelated to inductive components and special components for current supplying.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Quality audits
Technological advisory services
Advisory services relating to industrial design
Advisory services relating to product testing
Advisory services relating to scientific instruments
Advisory services relating to industrial engineering
Technical advisory services relating to data processing
Advisory services relating to computer systems analysis
Technological advisory services relating to machine engineering analysis
Quality control services
Quality assurance services
Product quality testing services
Quality control and authentication services
Consultancy services relating to quality control
Quality control testing services for industrial machinery
Testing services for the certification of quality or standards
Advisory services in the field of product development and quality improvement of software
Advisory services in the field of quality improvement of machinery
Technical testing services
Technical inspection services
Inspection of apparatus
Technical supervision and inspection
Inspection of plant and machinery
IT consultancy, advisory and information services, unrelated to inductive components and special components for current supplying.
The mark was filed in class 45 with Advisory services in relation to safety and Inspection of factories for safety purposes..