The trademark Wallis was filed by Star Finanz AHOI GmbH, a corporation established under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on May 3, 2021, and received one opposition filed on August 3, 2021 by Norion Bank AB on Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by Abion AB and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued August 3, 2021
The application was filed in German, and German was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
The Opposition with reference B 003152021 was refused according to Article 8(1)(b) EUTMR with decision issued on January 22, 2024 by the EUIPO.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with Computer programs [downloadable] for the fields of finance, banking and insurance and computer programs [saved] for the fields of finance, banking and insurance..
The mark was filed in class 35 with following description of goods:
Computerized file management
Sales promotion for third parties
Business information
Business management services for third parties
Computerized business information services
Computerized accounting services
Business consultancy services
Administrative data processing services
Preparation of accounting statements
Provision of economic forecasts
Preparation of economic forecasts for financial purposes
Commercial project planning
Commercial project development
Commercial project management
Systematization of data in computer databases
Compilation of data in computer databases
Management of financial data in computer databases
Provision of data
Preparation and processing of data.
The mark was filed in class 36 with following description of goods:
Finance
Money transactions
Banking services
Financial advice
Provision of financial information
Financial analysis
Formulation and preparation of financial strategies
Services relating to financial risk assessment
Financial risk analysis
Preparation of financial reports
Advice relating to banking transactions
Financial information provided online from a computer database or the Internet
Tracking of incoming and outgoing payments
Automation of accounting transactions
Cash management
Preparation of financial flow analyses
Risk assessments
Turnover and deposit balances retrieval services
Preparation of excess revenue statements
Provision of online banking data
Provision of account, deposit and financial turnover information, payment account access services
Account information services
Payment initiation services.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Design and development of computer software in the fields of finance, banking and insurance
Installation, maintenance, updating and rental of computer software in the fields of finance, banking and insurance
Creation of software for the fields of finance, banking and insurance
Computer consultancy services
Conversion of computer programs and data
IT services
Software as a service (SaaS)
Computer software programming for finance, banking and insurance
Computer data recovery
Data processing programming
Provision of authentication services
Realtime notification of users of transmissions over the Internet and other networks to predefined groups of recipients
Development of computerised products in the fields of finance, banking and insurance, namely software
Electronic storage of financial data
Development of financial products in the fields of finance, banking and insurance, namely software, development, brokerage and provision of application programming interfaces (APIs) for the fields of finance, banking and insurance, development and provision of platforms to application programming interfaces (APIs) in the fields of finance, banking and insurance
Services to use and connect to APIs in the financial, banking and insurance sectors
Provision of software and APIs for the provision of payment initiation services and account information services by third parties.