The trademark was filed by MINERVA TECHNOLOGIES S.R.L., a corporation established under the laws of the Italian Republic (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on August 2, 2023, and received one opposition filed on November 1, 2023 by Minerva Group on Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by SOCIETÀ ITALIANA BREVETTI S.P.A and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued November 1, 2023
The application was filed in Italian, and Italian was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
Software
Application software
Financial management software
Computer software relating to the handling of financial transactions
Computer programs for use in trading stocks and bonds
Computer programmes for data processing
Downloadable software applications
Computer software packages
Computer software platforms
Web application and server software
Computer systems
All the aforesaid goods being limited exclusively to financial data analysis and management.
The mark was filed in class 36 with following description of goods:
Finance services
Financial analysis
Financial consultancy
Financial management
Financial evaluation and analysis
Investment business services
Arranging of financial investments
Hire-purchase financing
Financial risk management services
Currency trading
Credit assessment services.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for analyzing financial data and generating reports
Design of information systems relating to finance
Rental of financial management software
IT services
Programming of computer software for evaluation and calculation of data
Development and testing of computing methods, algorithms and software
Platform as a service [PaaS]
Development of computer platforms
Software as a service [SaaS]
Software development
Development of computer software application solutions
Rental of software
Updating of computer software
Technical data analysis services
All the aforesaid services being limited exclusively to financial data analysis and management.