018460753

WIO

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April 25, 2021

Trademark Summary

The trademark WIO was filed by Wio Bank PJSC, a corporation established under the laws of the United Arab Emirates (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on July 5, 2021, and received one opposition filed on October 5, 2021 by Anheuser-Busch, LLC on (a) Identity of marks and Goods and Services, (b) Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by Stobbs Ireland Limited and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued October 5, 2021

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

A transfer of the trademark registration was recorded on July 21, 2022.

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Goods And Services

• The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
  
  1. Computer software relating to the handling of financial transactions
  2. Banking software
  3. Financial management software
  4. Software for facilitating secure credit card transactions
  5. Application software for mobile phones and other portable electronic devices, none for use in relation to or connected with products or services in the food and drink sector
  6. Computer software for authorising access to databases
  7. Software for card readers
  8. Computer software relating to financial history
  9. Computer hardware for facilitating financial transactions by electronic means
  10. Computer terminals for banking purposes
  11. Computer terminals for electronically processing debit and credit card payments and other financial transactions
  12. Banking cards
  13. Credit cards
  14. Debit cards
  15. Encoded charge cards
  16. Electronic chip cards
  17. Secure terminals for electronic transactions
  18. Automated teller machines (ATM)
  19. Electronic databases
  20. Computer databases, none for use in relation to or connected with products or services in the food and drink sector.
• The mark was filed in class 35 with following description of goods:
  
  1. Data processing services
  2. Creating indexes of information, sites and other resources available on global communications networks
  3. The bringing together, for the benefit of others, of a variety of services, namely banking services, credit card services, insurance services, loans and credit services, financial services, payment services, money transfer services and currency conversion services, enabling customers to view and purchase those services
  4. Price comparison services
  5. Consultancy, information and advice relating to all these services.
• The mark was filed in class 36 with following description of goods:
  
  1. Financial services
  2. Monetary services
  3. Banking services
  4. Electronic banking services
  5. Online banking services
  6. Automated banking services
  7. Computerised banking services
  8. Clearing services
  9. Deposit services
  10. Electronic deposit services
  11. Electronic payment services
  12. Payment processing services
  13. Electronic wallet services
  14. Funds transfer services
  15. Electronic funds transfer services
  16. Bank card, credit card, debit card and electronic payment card services
  17. Investment services
  18. Insurance services
  19. Providing an online website for the provision of financial, banking and payment services
  20. Consultancy, information and advice relating to all these services.
• The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
  
  1. Software as a Service (SaaS)
  2. Platform as a service [PaaS]
  3. Application service provider [ASP] services
  4. Application service provider [ASP], software as a service [SaaS] and platform as a service [PaaS] services to allow users to perform financial transactions
  5. Provision of an internet platform for access to financial, banking, payment and investment information
  6. Hosting of websites for the provision of financial, banking, payment and investment services
  7. Design and development of computer databases relating to finance and banking
  8. Hosting of an online website for the provision of financial information
  9. Data security services
  10. Data encryption services
  11. Software development services
  12. Provision of security services for computer networks, computer access and computerised transactions
  13. Design and development of information systems relating to finance
  14. Hosting of databases
  15. Providing temporary use of online downloadable software
  16. Consultancy, information and advice relating to all these services.