The trademark STRIKE was filed by Zap Solutions Holdings, Inc., a U.S. corporation (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on June 20, 2022, and received one opposition filed on September 20, 2022 by Stripe, Inc. on (a) Art. 8(4), (b) Likelihood of confusion, (c) Unfair advantage and detriment to distinctiveness or repute. the opponent was represented by D YOUNG & CO LLP and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued September 20, 2022
The application was filed in English, and English was also language of all opposition proceedings (French was selected as the second language).
Change of name and professional address of the trademark registration was recorded on January 3, 2024.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
Downloadable software for use in facilitating and viewing non-fiat financial transactions, viewing non-fiat financial account balances, storing, sending, receiving, buying and selling non-fiat virtual currency
Downloadable software for use as a digital wallet for exchanging fiat currency to or from non-fiat virtual currency, or trading non-fiat virtual currency
Downloadable software for enabling the electronic transfer of fiat currency for non-fiat virtual currency between users
Downloadable software for enabling processing of non-fiat digital assets and non-fiat virtual currency payments.
The mark was filed in class 35 with Promoting the sale of goods and services of others through electronic couponing, promotions and discounts and Prepaid card incentive programs, namely, providing non-fiat virtual cash back rewards to prepaid card account holders..
The mark was filed in class 36 with following description of goods:
Fiat currency to non-fiat virtual currency exchange services and non-fiat virtual currency to fiat currency exchange services
Financial services, namely, providing a retail trading platform for the selling and purchasing of non-fiat virtual currency in exchange for fiat currency or virtual currency
Cash management, namely, electronic transfers of non-fiat virtual currency in the nature of electronic cash equivalents
Financial services, namely, electronic non-fiat virtual currency and fiat currency transfer
Clearing and reconciling non-fiat financial transactions via a global computer network
Providing non-fiat virtual currency payment and non-fiat financial services, namely, electronic creation, processing, transmission and reconciliation of invoice payments
Financial custody services, namely, maintaining possession of non-fiat financial assets or virtual currencies for others for financial management purposes
Providing non-fiat virtual currency mobile payment services for others in the nature of providing secure commercial transactions and non-fiat payment options using a mobile device at a point of sale
Payment processing services, namely, facilitating non-fiat virtual currency payments made by third parties to user accounts
Providing virtual and physical prepaid card products for use in connection with non-fiat virtual currency payment for products and services.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Application service provider featuring application programming interface (API) software for use in facilitating electronic transfers of and non-fiat virtual currency
Providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software for enabling the electronic transfer of non-fiat virtual currency
Virtual currency and digital asset services, namely, technology custody services in the nature of electronic storage of non-fiat cryptocurrency and non-fiat digital assets for safeguarding, storing, and enabling users to access non-fiat cryptocurrency and other non-fiat digital assets.