The trademark MARSCITY was filed by MARS PLANET TECHNOLOGIES S.R.L., a corporation established under the laws of the Italian Republic (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on March 8, 2022, and received one opposition filed on May 9, 2022 by Mars City Design LLC on (a) Identity of marks and Goods and Services, (b) Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by Louis Godart Avocat SRL and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued May 9, 2022
The application was filed in Italian, and Italian was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
Deletion of the representative of the trademark registration was recorded on July 4, 2023.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
Hardware, software, Apparatus, Devices, Machines, Electric and electronic installations and systems for use in the following fields: Human space exploration and space colonisation
Humanoid robots with artificial intelligence for use in scientific research
Virtual reality software for simulating life in space
Virtual and augmented reality software
Software for creating digital twins, in particular cities, residential units, transport units and life in space
Virtual reality software for education and Virtual Reality software for entertainment.
The mark was filed in class 12 with following description of goods:
Apparatus for locomotion by land and air for use in the space sector, in particular human space exploration and space colonisation
Robotic cars
Space vehicles
Space vehicles.
The mark was filed in class 35 with Purchase and sale of systems, apparatus, devices, machines, installations and residential units for the space sector, in particular human space exploration and space colonisation and Business affairs and business consultancy in the field of space, in particular for space exploration and space colonisation..
The mark was filed in class 37 with following description of goods:
Supervision of building engineering design for life in space
Building constructions for life in space and for simulating life in space
Space building and construction
Construction of residential modules for life in space and for simulating life in space.
The mark was filed in class 41 with following description of goods:
Educational and teaching services
Training services
Publishing services
Organizing of symposia, Organisation of conventions, Organisation of seminars and Event organisation services specifically in relsation to the following fields: Space exploration and space colonisation.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Design and development of space systems, robot systems including humanoids, life support systems for space, space propulsion systems, bionic systems for space, on-site space resource exploitation systems placed on planets and satellites as well as on asteroids, space modules and stations placed in orbit as well as on planets and satellites, space farming systems, systems and apparatus dedicated to space medicine
Design of buildings and residential units for life in space, in particular on the planet Mars
Design and development of new materials necessary for human space exploration, transport systems, remote control systems, remote sensing systems dedicated to land application as well as for space body exploration purposes
Research in the field of all sectors relating to human space exploration, in particular to the exploration of Mars
Technical consultancy in the field of all sectors relating to human space exploration, in particular to the exploration of Mars
Engineering services relating to robotics
Design and development of computer game software and virtual reality software.