The trademark Smart Technologies was filed by Abderrahman Karim, a national of the Kingdom of Morocco (the "Applicant") and Ahmed El Ghazzi, a national of the Kingdom of Morocco (the "Co-Applicant", and jointly with the "Applicant" referred to as the "Applicants" going forward). The application was published for oppositions on June 9, 2020, and received one opposition filed on September 9, 2020 by Stadtwerke Herne Aktiengesellschaft on Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by SCHNEIDERS & BEHRENDT PARTMBB, RECHTS- UND PATENTANWÄLTE and proceedings were handled in German, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued September 9, 2020
The application was filed in German, and German was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 36 with following description of goods:
Equity financing
Venture capital funding services for companies
Real estate financing
Real estate financing
Financing and funding services.
The mark was filed in class 41 with following description of goods:
Engineering training college services
Consultancy services relating to engineering education
Engineering training services
Conducting of educational courses in engineering
Consultancy services relating to engineering education
Courses (Training -) relating to engineering
Providing of training
Education information
Training.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Engineering services
Engineering consultancy services
Technical engineering
Engineering services
Engineering and computer-aided engineering services
Engineering services
Technological engineering analysis
Engineering services
Engineering services in the field of communications technology
Engineering services relating to energy supply systems
Engineering services in the field of building technology
Engineering services in the field of motive power
Engineering services relating to data processing
Technical project planning in the field of engineering
Engineering services relating to computers
Engineering services in the field of energy technology
Engineering services relating to data processing technology
Engineering services relating to information technology
Engineering services relating to automatic data processing
Engineering services in the field of electrical power and natural gas production.