The trademark FreeDa was filed by BOI Software Entwicklung und Vertrieb GmbH, a corporation established under the laws of the Republic of Austria (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on August 5, 2020, and received one opposition filed on November 3, 2020 by FREE on (a) Art. 8(4), (b) Likelihood of confusion, (c) Unfair advantage and detriment to distinctiveness or repute. the opponent was represented by COURSIN CHARLIER AVOCATS and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued November 3, 2020
The application was filed in German, and German was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
Requests for conversion of an EUTM application into a national trade mark application of the trademark registration was recorded on September 13, 2022.
The Opposition with reference B 003134137 was refused according to Article 8(5) EUTMR with decision issued on March 8, 2022 by the EUIPO.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
Software for the management and maintenance of table data from relational databases, software for the management and maintenance of table data from relational databases
Software for the central maintenance of master, reference and control data for complex environments
Software for changing, filtering, searching, sorting, printing, exporting and importing of data
Software for the read-only maintenance of table data in relational databases
Software for the maintenance of master, reference and control data in business application software
Workflow applications for the maintenance of master, reference and control data from relational databases
Workflow applications for the maintenance of master, reference and control data from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
The mark was filed in class 35 with Maintenance and updating of master, reference and control data from relational databases by workflows and Maintenance and updating of master, reference and control data from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems by workflows..
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Design, development and implementation of software for the management and maintenance of table data from relational databases
Design, development and implementation of software for changing, filtering, searching, sorting, printing, exporting and importing of data
Rental of software for the management and maintenance of table data from relational databases
Providing of temporary use of non-downloadable online operating software for the management and maintenance of table data from relational databases.