The trademark Iris by Argon was filed by ARGON & CO, a corporation established under the laws of the French Republic (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on April 16, 2020, and received one opposition filed on July 14, 2020 by Iris Software Group Limited on (a) Art. 8(4), (b) Likelihood of confusion, (c) Unfair advantage and detriment to distinctiveness or repute. the opponent was represented by CSY LONDON and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued July 14, 2020
It was designated 'Basic Application' for International Application 1557179 at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
The application was filed in English, and English was also language of all opposition proceedings (French was selected as the second language).
Partial Surrender of the trademark registration was recorded on January 29, 2023. Partial Surrender of the trademark registration was recorded on April 27, 2023. A transfer of the trademark registration was recorded on July 1, 2024.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with Computer software, relating to optimization of operations and support functions and none of the above in relation to sound technology..
The mark was filed in class 35 with following description of goods:
Business management and organization consultancy
Business efficiency expert services
Compilation of statistics
Cost price analysis
Systemization of information into computer databases
All of the aforesaid relating to business management consultancy services in relation to operations strategy and transformation
None of the above in relation to sound technology.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Computer programming
Computer software consultancy
Information technology [IT] consultancy
Computer and software design
Development, programming, maintenance and support services for use in the field of management, management consultancy, advanced analytics, data analysis, financial management consultancy, data manipulation and visualization, analytical processing, management and governance of analytics, providing realtime data analytics
Installation of computer software
Platform as a service [PaaS]
Software as a service [SaaS]
All of the aforesaid relating to business management consultancy services, namely consultancy services related to strategy and operation transformation, in relation to operations strategy and transformation
None of the aforesaid services relating to accounting, payroll, tax, finance, secretarial or corporate hosting, lease portfolio management, legal and regulatory compliance, telecommunications, customer engagement, customer relationship management, communications, business logic, workflow systems, business intelligence, business analysis, practice management, biometric systems, currency conversion
None of the above related to cloud computing services
None of the aforesaid relating to machine learning or artificial intelligence in relation to accounting, payroll, tax, finance, secretarial or corporate hosting, lease portfolio management, legal and regulatory compliance, telecommunications, customer engagement, customer relationship management, communications, business logic, workflow systems, business intelligence, business analysis, practice management, biometric systems, currency conversion
None of the above in relation to sound technology.