The trademark BOOM was filed by Gavin Hamilton, a national of Ireland (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on March 21, 2022, and received one opposition filed on June 20, 2022 by Koninklijke Boom Uitgevers B.V. on (a) Identity of marks and Goods and Services, (b) Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by CHIEVER BV and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued June 20, 2022
The application was filed in English, and English was also language of all opposition proceedings (Italian was selected as the second language).
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
Computer software
Software for education, training and tuition
Software for coding, computing methods, algorithms, machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning and artificial intelligence
None of the aforesaid relating to photography and photography software, photo clouding services, photo management services and photo software systems, photo databases and photo archives
None of the aforesaid in the field of photography
None of the aforesaid in the field of visual content creation
None of the aforesaid relating to visual content software, visual content software systems and visual content management services.
The mark was filed in class 16 with following description of goods:
Printed matter
Printed publications
Books
Printed material related to education, training and tuition
Instructional manuals, brochures, books and pamphlets
Instructional manuals and printed matter related to software, coding, computing methods, algorithms, machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning and artificial intelligence
None of the aforesaid relating to photography and photography software, photo clouding services, photo management services and photo software systems, photo databases and photo archives
None of the aforesaid in the field of photography
None of the aforesaid in the field of visual content creation
None of the aforesaid relating to visual content software, visual content software systems and visual content management services.
The mark was filed in class 41 with following description of goods:
Education
Training
Tuition
Education, training and tuition relating to software, coding, computing methods, algorithms, machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning and artificial intelligence
Arranging and conducting of conferences
Presentations
Providing educational publications
Providing online electronic publications, not downloadable
Providing online videos, not downloadable
Distance learning courses
Online courses
Online quizzes
Information, advisory and consultancy services relating to all the aforesaid
None of the aforesaid relating to photography and photography software, photo clouding services, photo management services and photo software systems, photo databases and photo archives
None of the aforesaid in the field of photography
None of the aforesaid in the field of visual content creation
None of the aforesaid relating to visual content software, visual content software systems and visual content management services.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Research, design and development of computer programs and software
Research, design and development of computer programs and software for use in relation to education, training and tuition
Development and testing of computing methods, algorithms and software
Design, development and programming of computer software
Computer programming
Design and development of computing platforms and training environments for others
Research relating to computer programming
Computer programming and software design
Application service provider (ASP) featuring software for education and training
Software as a service [SaaS], platform as a service [PaaS] and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), all for the provision of education and training
Providing online, non-downloadable software for mobile devices, smart phones, tablet computers, personal computers and televisions
Providing online, non-downloadable software for cloud computing services
Information, advisory and consultancy services relating to all the aforesaid
None of the aforesaid relating to photography and photography software, photo clouding services, photo management services and photo software systems, photo databases and photo archives
None of the aforesaid in the field of photography
None of the aforesaid in the field of visual content creation
None of the aforesaid relating to visual content software, visual content software systems and visual content management services.