The trademark application Y! was filed by Yimbel GmbH, a corporation established under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on January 4, 2012, and it was registered by office on April 12, 2012 without any oppositions.
The application was filed in German (English was selected as the second language).
Cancellation Proceedings
A total of undefined cancellation proceedings were initiated against the trademark registration in 2012.The first Cancellation was filed by Yahoo Inc. (represented by GRÜNECKER PATENT- UND RECHTSANWÄLTE PARTG MBB) on September 27, 2018 and Final decision – EUTM fully cancelled.
Deletion of the representative of the trademark registration was recorded on November 21, 2016. Application for revocation or for a declaration of invalidity of the trademark registration was recorded on June 18, 2017. Decisions on applications for revocation or for a declaration of invalidity of the trademark registration was recorded on October 8, 2018.
The Cancellation with reference B 000015004 was EUTM cancelled according to Article 58(1)(a) EUTMR with decision issued on March 22, 2018 by the EUIPO.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
Computer programs and software
Electronic data (downloadable) provided online via databases and/or the Internet
Computer software for the storage, administration, tracking and analysis of data in the field of website development
Computer programs for searching, retrieving, managing, sorting, selecting and/or storing information available via the Internet or other computer networks and systems
Computer software and computer programs for providing online access to the Internet and for scanning and converting websites online
Data recording carriers for computers, in particular floppy discs, CD-ROMs,DVDs, memory sticks and memory cards.
The mark was filed in class 35 with following description of goods:
Advertising
Business administration
On-line information services relating to all of the aforementioned services.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Consultancy, design, analysis, development and providing services, all relating to computer software and computer programs
Maintenance and updating of computer software, computer software packages and computer programs
Computer services relating to providing online access to the Internet and for converting websites online