018672341

VK

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March 15, 2022

Trademark Summary

The trademark VK was filed by Guangzhou Huazhi Zongheng Technology Co., Ltd., a corporation established under the laws of the People's Republic of China (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on March 21, 2022, and received one opposition filed on May 4, 2022 by SIKA Dr. Siebert & Kühn GmbH & Co. KG on (a) Identity of marks and Goods and Services, (b) Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by Walther Bayer Faber Patentanwälte PartGmbB and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued May 4, 2022

The application was filed in English, and English was also language of all opposition proceedings (Italian was selected as the second language).

The Opposition with reference B 003170492 was partially refused EUTMA/IR according to Article 8(1)(a) EUTMR with decision issued on June 13, 2023 by the EUIPO.

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Goods And Services

• The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
  
  1. Electronic numeric displays
  2. Battery chargers
  3. Sonars
  4. Cabinets for loudspeakers
  5. Microphones
  6. Computers
  7. Couplings, electric
  8. Telephone apparatus
  9. Cameras [photography].
• The mark was filed in class 35 with following description of goods:
  
  1. Advertising
  2. Commercial administration of the licensing of the goods and services of others
  3. Personnel management consultancy
  4. Administrative services for the relocation of businesses
  5. Accounting
  6. Import-export agency services
  7. Systemization of information into computer databases
  8. Rental of vending machines
  9. Provision of an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of goods and services
  10. Rental of sales stands.