The trademark application Workforce Productivity was filed by Interflex Datensysteme GmbH, a corporation established under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany (the "Applicant"). Application refused.
The application was filed in German (English was selected as the second language).
Change of name and professional address of the trademark registration was recorded on September 2, 2007.
The Refusal with reference B 004892808 was Rejected according to Article 7(1)(b) CTMR with decision issued on March 6, 2007 by the EUIPO.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
Electrical and electronic appliances, devices and instruments for the low-current domain, ie information-transmission engineering, high-frequency, digital control and engineering
Input and data-processing appliances for the processing of data associated with persons, for time management, ie the management and exploitation of staff time, for safety engineering such as access control, video surveillance and the comparison of images, for the input of operating data such as the input of costs, contractual times, machine data, fuel-consumption data and canteen data, the control of manufacturing and the management of garage sites, for the management of the employment of staff and resources
Passes and identity cards
Check and credit cards, time cards, access cards, identification cards, membership cards, other identification documents, especially in the usual format of credit cards
Cards with chips, transponder cards, devices for the recording and remote transmission of digitalized data for the production of cards, chip cards, card-shaped information carriers, multifunction cards
Video print systems (included in class 09), encoders
Aforementioned identification documents and cards coded or magnetic.
The mark was filed in class 35 with following description of goods:
Business administration
Administration services
Project management in the business, commercial and administrative field
Services in the field of staff worktime logging, staff planning
Services in the field of production management.
The mark was filed in class 37 with Installation and maintenance of input and data-processing appliances.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Planning concerning input and data-processing appliances
Establishment of programs for input and data-processing appliances
Establishment of programs for staff worktime logging, staff planning, production management, time management.