The trademark FreeFinance was filed by Manubu gmbh, a corporation established under the laws of the Republic of Austria (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on July 17, 2023, and received one opposition filed on September 5, 2023 by FREE on (a) Likelihood of confusion, (b) Unfair advantage and detriment to distinctiveness or repute. the opponent was represented by COURSIN CHARLIER AVOCATS and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued September 5, 2023
The application was filed in German, and German was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
Appointment and Replacement of representative of the trademark registration was recorded on January 4, 2024.
The Opposition with reference B 003202878 was refused according to Article 8(5) EUTMR with decision issued on January 16, 2025 by the EUIPO.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
Software
Document automation software
Computer programmes for data processing
Enterprise resource planning [ERP] software
Business technology software
Communications server software
Accounting software
Business management software
Databases
Computer software for creating searchable databases of information and data.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Providing online, non-downloadable software
Rental of software for data processing
Software development
Cloud hosting provider services
Hosting services, software as a service, and rental of software
Consulting services in the field of software as a service [SaaS]
Software as a service [SaaS] featuring software for machine learning
Software as a service [SaaS] featuring software for deep neural networks
Platforms for artificial intelligence as software as a service [SaaS]
Software as a service [SaaS] services featuring software for machine learning, deep learning and deep neural networks