The trademark LOCALO was filed by LOCALO MARKETPLACE APP, a corporation established under the laws of Romania (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on August 25, 2020, and received one opposition filed on October 22, 2020 by LOCAL.FR on Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by Plasseraud IP and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued October 22, 2020
The application was filed in Romanian, and Romanian was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
The Opposition with reference B 003133174 was refused according to Article 8(1)(b) EUTMR with decision issued on October 25, 2021 by the EUIPO.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with Computer software applications, downloadable and Computer application software for use with wearable computer devices..
The mark was filed in class 35 with following description of goods:
Organisation of promotions using audiovisual media
Organisation of events for commercial and advertising purposes
Promotion services
Sales promotion
Business promotion
Merchandising
Distribution of promotional matter
Promotional marketing
Publicity and sales promotion services
Development of promotional campaigns
Computerised business promotion
Sales promotion for others
Promotional services provided by telephone
Advertising, marketing and promotional services.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Programming for computers
Computer programming relating to multimedia and interactive applications
Consultancy relating to the design and development of computer software programs
Software development (design)
Electronic storage services for online electronic data provided by computer specialists relating to personalised online information
Creation and maintenance of websites
Providing search engines for the internet
Hosting of servers
Services of specialists relating to information technology for data storage online
Providing temporary online access to applications and software tools
Provision of temporary use of nondownloadable software
Services of information technology specialists relating to cloud computing
Hosting computer sites (websites)
Hosting of computer software applications for others
Creating and providing of software applications
Providing of computer software applications to enable and facilitate uploading, downloading, streaming, sending messages, publishing, displaying, posting on blogs, providing links, sharing of electronic files and information via a communications network
Development of electronic computer software applications.