The trademark Turbo was filed by Adp Merkur GmbH, a corporation established under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on August 18, 2002, and received one opposition filed on November 18, 2002 by EDIMPRESA - EDITORA, LDA. on Likelihood of confusion. the opponent was represented by FURTADO - MARCAS E PATENTES, S.A.
The application was filed in German, and German was also language of all opposition proceedings (Spanish was selected as the second language).
Two renewals of the trademark were recorded, one on February 7, 2012, and the other one on January 4, 2022.
Change of name and professional address of the trademark registration was recorded on October 7, 2015. Change of name and professional address of the trademark registration was recorded on April 20, 2017. Appointment and Replacement of representative of the trademark registration was recorded on January 18, 2021. Change of name and address of the trademark registration was recorded on March 7, 2022.
The Opposition with reference B 000558793 was rejected according to Article 8(1)(b) CTMR with decision issued on June 10, 2004 by the EUIPO.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
Electrotechnical and electronic apparatus, equipment, instruments and machines (included in class 9)
Automatic machines, operated by coins, bank notes, tokens of value, magnetic cards, and/or apparatus operated by inserting microchips and/or tokens
Electric and electronic machines and apparatus for games, amusement or entertainment purposes, or automatic sports machines
Game and amusement apparatus
Automatic gaming machines
Including the aforesaid automatic machines, machines and apparatus operating in networks
Mechanisms for coin-operated apparatus, including coin-operated switch apparatus
Including the aforesaid goods in connection with coin and token-operated entertainment machines, automatic slot machines and automatic sports machines
Accounting apparatus for automatic coin-operated machines, automatic data recording machines, data printers
Printed electronic circuits
Change machines, token and counter-operated machines and game card distribution machines, automatic
Machine-readable data carriers equipped with programs for the aforesaid automatic machines, machines and apparatus.
The mark was filed in class 28 with following description of goods:
Automatic coin-operated compact sports machines, sports equipment for small spaces, in particular electronic darts, table football, pool-billiards, snooker, shooting ranges
Games
Hand-held units for playing electronic games
Memory cartridges or memory cards for electronic pocket games
Toys
Video games apparatus and instruments, other than adapted for use with television receivers.
The mark was filed in class 41 with rental of automatic slot machines and entertainment machines/installations for casinos and rental of lighting equipment for live entertainment..