001212711

SKYMAIL

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May 31, 1999

Trademark Summary

The trademark SKYMAIL was filed by SKYMAIL, société à responsabilité limitée, a corporation established under the laws of the French Republic (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on January 16, 2000, and received one opposition filed on April 16, 2000 by Sky UK Limited on (a) Identity of marks and Goods and Services, (b) Likelihood of confusion, (c) Unfair advantage and detriment to distinctiveness or repute. and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued April 16, 2000

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

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Goods And Services

• The mark was filed in class 35 with following description of goods:
  
  1. Advertising
  2. Business management
  3. Business administration
  4. Office functions
  5. Direct mail advertising (tracts, brochures, printed matter, samples)
  6. Rental of publicity material
  7. Business management assistance, business management and organisation consultancy, business management consultancy, personnel management consultancy, professional business consultancy
  8. Commercial business estimates
  9. Accounting
  10. Document reproduction
  11. Secretarial services
  12. Statistical information
  13. Shorthand
  14. Television advertising
  15. Radio advertising
  16. Auditing
  17. Public relations
  18. Subscription to all news, written, audio and/or visual media, including subscriptions to newspapers and magazines
  19. Data entry and data processing
  20. Opinion polling.
• The mark was filed in class 38 with following description of goods:
  
  1. Telecommunications
  2. News agencies, press agencies, radio broadcasting, communications by telegrams, telephone or data transmission
  3. Radio and television broadcasting
  4. Cable television broadcasting
  5. Transmission and broadcasting of images, messages and information by computer terminals, cable, data transmission media and by any other telecommunication media
  6. Teleprinting and telex services
  7. Electronic mail.
• The mark was filed in class 41 with following description of goods:
  
  1. Educational, training and entertainment services in general
  2. Correspondence courses
  3. Book lending
  4. Publication of texts, other than publicity texts, illustrations, books, magazines, newspapers and periodicals
  5. Teaching and education at beginner or advanced level in any discipline of general interest
  6. Arranging and conducting of seminars, training courses, conferences, forums, colloquiums and courses
  7. Production of radio and/or television programmes
  8. Arranging of competitions and games of all kinds, broadcast by radio and television
  9. Lotteries
  10. Arranging of shows
  11. Production and rental of films, cassettes, including video cassettes, discs and compilations of discs
  12. Services relating to recording or reproduction of sound and images
  13. Sporting and cultural activities
  14. Booking of seats for shows.
• The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
  
  1. Providing of food and drink
  2. Hotel and restaurant reservations
  3. Temporary accommodation
  4. Medical, hygienic and beauty care
  5. Veterinary and agricultural services
  6. Legal services
  7. Scientific and industrial research
  8. Programming, rental of computer software
  9. Leasing of access time to a computer data base server centre
  10. Rest homes and convalescent homes
  11. Day nurseries
  12. Marriage bureaux
  13. Undertaking
  14. Engineering, professional consultancy and construction drafting, non-business
  15. Engineering work (not for construction)
  16. Prospecting
  17. Material testing
  18. Laboratories
  19. Rental of farming equipment, clothing, bed linen, vending machines
  20. Printing
  21. News reporters services
  22. Filming on video
  23. Management of exhibition facilities.