The trademark VALID VOTE was filed by MJA Sp. z o.o., a corporation established under the laws of the Republic of Poland (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on August 17, 2020, and received one opposition filed on November 17, 2020 by Valid Soluções e Serviços de Segurança em Meios de Pagamento e Identificação, S.A. on Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by SIMÕES, GARCIA, CORTE-REAL & ASSOCIADOS - CONSULTORES, LDA. and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued November 17, 2020
The application was filed in Polish, and Polish was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
Change of name and professional address of the trademark registration was recorded on August 11, 2021.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 35 with following description of goods:
Online community management services
Opinion polling
Opinion polling
Opinion polling
Design of public opinion surveys
Preparation of public opinion surveys
Provision and rental of advertising space, time and media
Dissemination of advertisements via the Internet
Advertising, including on-line advertising on a computer network
Providing marketing consulting in the field of social media.
The mark was filed in class 38 with following description of goods:
Providing of an interactive online platform enabling users to exchange opinions, views, express opinions, vote, use discussion forums, send messages and files, and share content in text, audio, visual and audiovisual form
Chatroom services for social networking
Providing internet chatrooms
Providing online forums
Computer aided transmission of messages and images
Providing access to databases
Electronic transmission of news
Electronic exchange of data stored in databases accessible via telecommunication networks
Electronic exchange of messages via chat lines, chatrooms and Internet forums
Providing internet chatrooms
Transmission of short messages [SMS], images, speech, sound, music and text communications between mobile telecommunications devices
Transmission of videos, movies, pictures, images, text, photos, games, user-generated content, audio content, and information via the Internet
Transmission of user-generated content via the Internet
Providing online electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer and mobile device users
Providing online chatrooms for the transmission of messages, comments and multimedia content among users
Providing of an interactive online platform for opinion polling
Providing of an interactive online platform for voting.