The trademark SAP JOULE was filed by SAP SE, a corporation established under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on October 24, 2023, and received one opposition filed on January 18, 2024 by Trayport Limited on Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by Boult Wade Tennant LLP and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued January 18, 2024
It was designated 'Basic Application' for International Application 1790404 at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
The application was filed in English, and English was also language of all opposition proceedings (German was selected as the second language).
Change of name and professional address of the trademark registration was recorded on November 23, 2023.
The Opposition with reference B 003210292 was refused according to Article 8(1)(b) EUTMR with decision issued on July 16, 2025 by the EUIPO.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Design, development, programming, customization, integration, implementation, maintenance, trouble-shooting, updating, and rental of computer programs and software
Computer software research and engineering
Computer software consulting
Cloud computing services
Software as a service
Platform as a service
Application service provider featuring application programming interface (API) software
Software as a service for processing and generating natural language queries
Software as a service using artificial intelligence for the generation of speech and text
Online non-downloadable software for multi-modal machine-learning based language, text, and speech processing
Online non-downloadable software for AI artificial intelligence chatbots
Artificial intelligence and machine learning research and development services
Online non-downloadable software for artificial intelligence and machine learning.