The trademark application MTN was filed by MTN GROUP MANAGEMENT SERVICES (PROPRIETARY) LIMITED, a corporation established under the laws of the Republic of South Africa (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on May 17, 2022, and it was registered by office on August 24, 2022 without any oppositions.
The application was filed in English (French was selected as the second language).
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Scientific and technological services and research and design relating thereto
Industrial analysis and research services
Design and development of computer hardware and software
Application service provider (APS), including, providing, hosting, managing, developing, and maintaining applications, software, web sites, and databases in the fields of wireless communication, mobile information access, and remote data management for wireless delivery of content to handheld computers, laptops and mobile electronic devices
Providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software and applications for instant messaging, voice over internet protocol (VOIP), video conferencing, and audio conferencing
Computer services, including, creating an online community for registered users to engage in social networking
Computer services, including, creating virtual communities for users to participate in discussions, get feedback from their peers, and engage in social, business and community networking
Computer services, including, hosting electronic facilities for others for interactive discussions via communication networks
Application service provider (ASP) featuring software to enable or facilitate the creating, editing, uploading, downloading, accessing, viewing, posting, displaying, tagging, blogging, streaming, linking, annotating, indicating sentiment about, commenting on, embedding, transmitting, and sharing or otherwise providing electronic media or information via computer and communication networks
Providing information from searchable indexes and databases of information, including text, electronic documents, databases, graphics, electronic media, photographic images and audio visual information, on computer and communication networks
Providing temporary use of non-downloadable software applications for social networking, creating a virtual community, and transmission of audio, video, photographic images, text, graphics and data
Providing online facilities that gives users the ability to upload, modify and share audio, video, photographic images, text, graphics and data
Digital imaging services related to digitalization and scanning of images as well as rendering of computer graphics
Providing non-downloadable e-commerce software to allow users to perform electronic business transactions via global computer network
Computer services, in particular, application service provider featuring application programming interface (API) software to allow users to perform electronic business transactions via a global computer network
Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for sending electronic message alerts, for transmitting orders, sending and receiving electronic messages, allowing users to perform electronic business transactions and stream and download audio and video content via a global computer network, all the aforementioned services excluding software services as well as scientific research and analysis services in the field of finance, financial markets, financial information and investment opportunities.