The trademark DEV was filed by JOBS.BG EOOD, a corporation established under the laws of the Republic of Bulgaria (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on February 16, 2021, and received one opposition filed on May 5, 2021 by DDV Mediengruppe GmbH & Co. KG on Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by GRAMM, LINS & PARTNER PATENT- UND RECHTSANWÄLTE PARTGMBB and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued May 5, 2021
The application was filed in Bulgarian, and Bulgarian 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 June 9, 2021. Deletion of the representative of the trademark registration was recorded on January 30, 2023.
The Opposition with reference B 003146178 was rejected according to Article 8(1)(b) EUTMR with decision issued on July 7, 2022 by the EUIPO.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 35 with following description of goods:
Advertising
Online advertising on a computer network
Layout services for advertising purposes
Pay per click advertising
Updating of advertising material
Publication of publicity texts
Writing of publicity texts
Word processing
Personnel recruitment advertising
Placing advertisements for others
Rental of advertising space
Consultancy regarding advertising communication strategies
Providing user reviews for commercial or advertising purposes
Business management for freelance service providers
Employment agency services
Personnel management consultancy
Personnel recruitment
Psychological testing for the selection of personnel
Providing recruitment information via a global computer network
Information services relating to jobs and career opportunities
News clipping services
Providing business information via a web site
Provision of commercial and business contact information
Provision of commercial information
Marketing
Event marketing
Marketing in the framework of software publishing
Organization of events, exhibitions, fairs and shows for commercial, promotional and advertising purposes
Compilation of statistics
Analysis of market research statistics
Market studies
Business investigations
Market research
Business research
Providing user rankings for commercial or advertising purposes
Business inquiries
Market intelligence services
Data processing
Employment consultancy services relating to data processing personnel
Administrative support and data processing services.
The mark was filed in class 38 with following description of goods:
Electronic transmission and retransmission of sounds, images, documents, messages and data
Providing online forums
Electronic communication service by means of computer
Interactive communication services
Provision of electronic video links
Telecommunication gateway services
Transmission of information for business purposes
Communications via a global computer network or the internet
Providing access to weblogs
Access to content, websites and portals
Provision of access to web pages
Providing access to and leasing access time to computer databases
Providing access to Internet forums
Providing an online interactive bulletin board
Providing access to platforms and portals on the Internet
Providing access to multimedia content online
Providing online chatrooms for the transmission of messages, comments and multimedia content among users
Providing on-line chat rooms for social networking
Chatroom services for social networking
Providing user access to search engines
Providing user access to a global computer network and online sites containing information on a wide range of topics
Electronic communication by means of chatrooms, chat lines and Internet forums