003492774

STEP

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November 17, 2003

Trademark Summary

The trademark STEP 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 February 27, 2005, and received one opposition filed on May 23, 2005 by null on (a) Identity of marks and Goods and Services, (b) Likelihood of confusion, (c) Unfair advantage and detriment to distinctiveness or repute, (d) Earlier non registered TM & right to prohibit use of later TM under national law, (e) Earlier sign & right to prohibit use of later TM under national law. the opponent was represented by MURGITROYD & COMPANY and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued May 23, 2005

The application was filed in German, and German was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).

The renewal of the trademark was recorded by the office on September 20, 2014.

of the trademark registration was recorded on September 20, 2014.

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Goods And Services

• The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
  
  1. Automatic machines providing services requiring payment
  2. Automatic machines, operated by coins, banknotes, tokens of value, magnetic cards, and/or apparatus operated by inserting microchips and/or tokens
  3. Mechanisms for coin-operated apparatus, including coin-operated switch apparatus
  4. Including the aforesaid goods in connection with coin and token-operated entertainment machines, automatic slot machines and automatic sports machines
  5. Programs for operating electric and electronic apparatus for games, amusement and/or entertainment purposes
  6. Accounting apparatus for automatic coin-operated machines, automatic data recording machines, data printers
  7. Printed electronic circuits
  8. Change machines, token and counter-operated machines and game card distribution machines, automatic
  9. Machine-readable data carriers containing programs for the aforesaid automatic machines and apparatus
  10. Memory cartridges or memory cards for hand-held electronic games and parts for the aforesaid goods.
• The mark was filed in class 28 with following description of goods:
  
  1. Sports equipment for small spaces, namely electronic darts, table football, pool-billiards, snooker, shooting ranges
  2. Games
  3. Hand-held units for playing electronic games
  4. Toys
  5. Free-standing video games apparatus
  6. Video games apparatus and instruments, not adapted for use with television receivers
  7. Electric and electronic machines and apparatus for games, amusement or entertainment purposes or automatic sports machines
  8. Coin-operated gaming machines and entertainment machines
  9. Automatic gaming machines
  10. The aforesaid automatic machines, machines and apparatus operating in networks.