The trademark was filed by Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd., a corporation established under the laws of Canada (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on March 23, 2021, and received one opposition filed on June 23, 2021 by MICROSOFT CORPORATION on (a) Art. 8(4), (b) Likelihood of confusion, (c) Unfair advantage and detriment to distinctiveness or repute. the opponent was represented by CMS CAMERON MCKENNA NABARRO OLSWANG POSNIAK I BEJM SP.K. and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued June 23, 2021
The application was filed in English, and English was also language of all opposition proceedings (French was selected as the second language).
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
Electronic systems, namely, smart cameras and vision controllers, computer hardware, frame grabbers, image/video capture systems, image processing accelerator hardware, software development tools for computer vision, image analysis, machine vision, medical imaging, robotics and video analytics
Computers
Computer hardware and software for use in video editing and video special effects
Computer terminals
Video circuit boards
Video graphic controller modules
Video graphic display controllers
Computer monitors
Display monitors
Video accessories namely, high speed light pens
Computer interface for video circuits boards
Computer cables
Electronic cables
Memory boards
Disk controller boards
Communication boards
Card cages (frame housing multiple processors)
Computer chassis
Chassis for electronic circuit boards
Computer disk drives
Optical and magnetic disk drives
Keyboards
Integrated circuits
Computer hardware and software related to graphics and video image generation, transmission, reproduction or display and replacement parts therefore
Audio and video compressors
Audio and video decompressors
IP processors for audio and video streaming
Audio and video processors
Video composition processors
Video scaling engines
Video deinterlacing processors
Video capture cards
USB and display remoting modules
Keyboard, Video and Mouse remoting processors
Display wall cards, namely: graphics cards, audio and video input cards, video processing cards, video encoder cards, video decoder cards, audio and video synchronization cards
Display wall software
Video playback software
Video distribution software
3D sensors
Software for video encoding and decoding
Servers
Computer graphics hardware for broadcast
Computer graphics software for broadcast
Signal converters
Parts and components for all the aforesaid goods.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Computer programming
Consultancy in computer hardware and software
Computer software maintenance
Computer Systems Integration Services
Electronics Design Services
Hardware Design Services
Information, advisory, support, integration and technical consulting services relating to the aforesaid services.