The trademark VAS was filed by VAS S.r.l., a corporation established under the laws of the Italian Republic (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on April 6, 2022, and received one opposition filed on June 28, 2022 by VASS CONSULTORIA DE SISTEMAS S.L. on (a) Identity of marks and Goods and Services, (b) Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by BERMEJO & JACOBSEN PATENTES-MARCAS S.L. and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued June 28, 2022
The application was filed in Italian, and Italian was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
Instructional and teaching apparatus and instruments
Electronic instructional and teaching apparatus and instruments
Teaching apparatus
Audiovisual teaching apparatus
Teaching robots
Education software
Children's educational software
Educational software
Training software
Student software
Teacher software
Virtual reality software for education
Augmented reality software for education
Machine learning software for analysis.
The mark was filed in class 41 with following description of goods:
Education and instruction
Education services relating to computers
Educational and teaching services
Distance learning services provided online
Services for arranging teaching programmes
Correspondence courses
Know-how transfer [training]
Providing online courses of instruction
Providing online training seminars
Provision of facilities for tuition
Production of teaching reports
Providing of training, teaching and tuition
Publication of educational teaching materials
Arranging and conducting of educational courses
Educational materials or apparatus (Rental of -)
Training services provided via simulators
Arrangement of training courses in teaching institutes
Organisation of courses using self-tuition methods
Teaching and training in business, industry and information technology
Services for setting up data processing teaching programs
Education services for imparting data processing teaching methods
Provision of instruction relating to computer programming.
The mark was filed in class 42 with Design, maintenance, development and updating of computer software.