The trademark NEED was filed by Need Inc., a U.S. corporation (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on June 21, 2022, and received one opposition filed on September 20, 2022 by BITE GmbH on (a) Identity of marks and Goods and Services, (b) Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by ERNICKE Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartmbB 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 (Italian was selected as the second language).
Change of name and professional address of the trademark registration was recorded on August 6, 2024.
The Opposition with reference B 003179141 was rejected according to Article 8(1)(a) EUTMR with decision issued on December 11, 2023 by the EUIPO.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Platform as a service (PaaS) featuring computer software platforms for analyzing health data and for medical diagnosis
Platform as a service (PaaS) featuring computer software platforms for medical professionals to develop and communicate about cancer treatment plans for patients
Providing a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) featuring computer software platforms to enable patients and health care providers to interact remotely, health care providers to access and manage patient medical data, patients to receive information and advertising related to their health care, and patients and clinicians to purchase health care products
Platform as Service (PaaS) featuring computer software platforms for cancer diagnosis and analysis of cancer symptoms and cancer treatment
Platform as Service (PaaS) featuring computer software platforms for providing information about healthcare insurance plans
Platform as Service (PaaS) featuring computer software platforms for providing insurance information
Platform as Service (PaaS) featuring computer software platforms for underwriting and pricing of insurance policies
Platform as a service (PAAS) featuring computer software platforms for performing risk, pricing, and insurance selection calculations in connection with the underwriting, issuance, and administration of insurance
Software as a service (SAAS) featuring computer software for performing risk, pricing, and insurance carrier selection calculations in connection with the underwriting, issuance, and administration of insurance
Design and development of computer software
Software as a service (SaaS) featuring software for use in the field of healthcare
Software as a service (SaaS) services for medical billing
Software as a service (SaaS) services for use in medical testing and management of data from such testing
Software as a service (SaaS) services for use by patients and medical professionals to distribute and share medical data, schedule appointments, send notifications, and provide access to healthcare information, documents and diagnoses
Software as a service (SaaS) featuring software for use in providing and processing of health care information
Providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for use in the healthcare field, namely, software for managing, storing, analyzing, maintaining, processing, structuring, reviewing, building, editing, distributing, communicating, organizing, sharing, referencing, monitoring and integrating healthcare information
Providing online nondownloadable computer software for clinical, financial and administrative healthcare processes and conducting health related transactions via computer and communication networks
Providing an interactive web site featuring technology that enables users to enter, access, track, monitor and generate health and medical information and reports
Providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software using artificial intelligence for facilitating machine learning
Software as a service (SaaS) featuring software using artificial intelligence for facilitating machine learning in clinical, financial and healthcare processes
Medical and scientific research in the field of cancer
Research and development of computer software in the healthcare field
Software as a service (SaaS) featuring software for use in appointment scheduling and appointment reminders
Software as a service (SaaS) featuring software for organizing financial, clinical, and research information for healthcare providers, medical insurance carriers, hospitals and other medical facilities, patients, pharmaceutical companies, and biotechnology companies.