The trademark Genius Fax was filed by The Grizzly Labs, a corporation established under the laws of the French Republic (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on September 21, 2023, and received one opposition filed on December 21, 2023 by Apple Inc. on (a) Art. 8(4), (b) Likelihood of confusion, (c) Unfair advantage and detriment to distinctiveness or repute. the opponent was represented by Locke Lord LLP and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued December 21, 2023
The application was filed in French, and French 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 October 9, 2023. Appointment and Replacement of representative of the trademark registration was recorded on March 5, 2024.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
Software
Downloadable software applications
Computer applications for mobile telephones, computers and tablet computers for document pre-processing before sending thereof
Computer applications for mobile telephones, computers and tablet computers for digitising documents, organising and accessing documents, exporting documents to external data storage locations or of others, archiving documents in a cloud computing environment, the aforesaid applications including saving, reproduction, copying, enhancement, research, export, analysis, data-to-document conversion.
The mark was filed in class 38 with following description of goods:
Document pre-processing before sending thereof
Transmission and receiving of information, data, images, documents and messages through computer terminals and networks
Computer aided transmission and dissemination of information, data, images, documents and messages
Communication services, namely, electronic transmission of data and documents among users of computers.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods: