The trademark META FORCE was filed by TECHSTAR S.R.L., a corporation established under the laws of the Italian Republic (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on March 13, 2022, and received one opposition filed on June 13, 2022 by Salesforce, Inc. on (a) Likelihood of confusion, (b) Unfair advantage and detriment to distinctiveness or repute. the opponent was represented by Nordemann Czychowski & Partner Rechtsanwältinnen und Rechtsanwälte mbB and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued June 13, 2022
The application was filed in Italian, and Italian 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 April 28, 2022.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
Computer software platforms, recorded or downloadable, in relation to the following fields: Augmented Reality
Augmented reality software
Augmented reality computer hardware
Artificial intelligence software
Virtual assistant software
Apparatus for generating virtual images
Computer software for use in migrating between different computer network operating systems
Industrialprocess control software
Interactive business software
Augmented reality software for business process automation and management
Tactile sensors with projected capacitive technology
Electronic publications in the field of interactive technology
Virtual relity software
Computer software for application and database integration
Computer software for database management
Customer relationship management (CRM) software.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Design and development of virtual reality software
Providing temporary use of non-downloadable software to enable sharing of multimedia content and comments among users
Hosting online web facilities for others for sharing online content
Design and development of computer software for process control
Design, development, maintenance and updating of software for processing texts and data, and for process control
Technological consultancy
Development of new technology for others
Consultancy and research in relation to science, engineering and IT
Development of computer software application solutions