The trademark FOCUS PRODUCTIONS was filed by FOCUS ENTERTAINMENT, a corporation established under the laws of the French Republic (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on March 29, 2021, and received three oppositions.
Opposition Proceedings
There are three Oppositions claimed against trademark.
The first opposition filed on June 29, 2021 by Universal City Studios LLC on (a) Art. 8(4), (b) Likelihood of confusion, (c) Unfair advantage and detriment to distinctiveness or repute. the opponent was represented by BAYLOS and its proceedings were handled in English The second opposition filed on June 28, 2021 by Serveis de l'Espectacle Focus, S.A. on Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by BAKER & MCKENZIE BARCELONA and its proceedings were handled in English The third opposition filed on May 19, 2021 by Focus Magazin Verlag GmbH on (a) Likelihood of confusion, (b) Unfair advantage and detriment to distinctiveness or repute. the opponent was represented by SSB SÖDER BERLINGER RECHTSANWÄLTE PARTG MBB and its proceedings were handled in English
The application was filed in French, and French was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
Change of name and address of the trademark registration was recorded on September 6, 2021.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
DVDs, DVD-ROMs
Downloadable music files
Television films, series, and audiovisual programmes of all kinds, on media of all kinds namely televisions, computers, tablet computers, portable video players, personal assistants, mobile telephones, computer networks, the internet
Electronic publications, downloadable
Software for streaming audiovisual and multimedia content via the internet and global communications networks
Downloadable motion pictures and television shows provided via a video-on-demand service
Audiovisual programmes in the nature of films and television series broadcast via the internet and viewable on a computer or mobile telephone
Cinematographic film, exposed
Photographic media [films, exposed]
Cinematographic films.
The mark was filed in class 41 with following description of goods:
Rental of videos, films, phonographic recordings, videotapes
Uploading on the internet, of free or paid audiovisual, television or cinematographic on-demand content
Entertainment and education through computers systems on line
Audio, video and multimedia production on audio and video media and multimedia of all kinds
Editing of interactive or non-interactive multimedia programmes (computerised setting of texts and/or images, still or animated, and/or musical or non-musical sounds), for audiovisual and cinematographic use.