CIRCLES DESIGN

Trademark usage description

downloadable computer software, namely, downloadable computer software for processing electronic payments, electronic funds transfer, facilitating ele Read More

Vienna Information

1 . 15 . 23

Vortices, rotary movements, tornadoes -- Note: Not including astronomic orbits (1.13.1), atomic orbits (1.13.1), concentric circles (26.1.4 or 26.1.5) and spirals (26.1.5).Tourbillons, mouvements rotatifs, tornade -- Note: Non compris les orbites astronomiques (1.13.1), les orbites atomiques (1.13.1), les cercles concentriques (26.1.4 ou 26.1.5) et les spirales (26.1.5).

26 . 11 . 3

More than two lines or two bandsPlus de deux lignes ou de deux bandes

26 . 11 . 12

Curved lines or bands (except a 26.11.13)Lignes ou bandes courbes (excepté a 26.11.13)

Classification Information

Class [009]
Downloadable computer software, namely, downloadable computer software for processing electronic payments, electronic funds transfer, facilitating electronic cash transactions with others, managing and verifying cryptocurrency transactions on a blockchain, managing crypto asset transactions using blockchain technology, for use as a digital wallet, and current conversion; downloadable mobile application software for processing electronic payments, electronic funds transfer and currency conversion; computer software for processing electronic payments and for transferring funds to and from others; computer software for creating, preparing, managing, sending, processing, tracking, and reconciling invoices; computer software for issuing receipts regarding mobile payment transactions; mobile application software for processing electronic payments and for transferring funds to and from others; computer software for use as a digital wallet; downloadable computer software for use as a digital wallet; downloadable computer software for use as a cryptocurrency wallet; downloadable computer software for the transmission of images, graphics, and text; authentication software for controlling access to and communications with computers and computer networks, namely, downloadable software with age verification and product authentication features of ensuring a secure user experience, software for authenticating the identity of a payer, software for providing authentication of parties to a financial transaction; computer software for currency and asset exchange transactions; computer software for electronic gift cards; software for arranging contracts, for others, for the buying and selling of goods and services, namely, downloadable computer software for use as an electronic financial platform that accommodates creation and management of virtual currency, accommodates contracts for the purchase and sale of goods and services, managing and validating cryptocurrency transactions using blockchain-based smart contracts; software for the analysis and evaluation of advertising; software for buying, selling, using and procuring online advertising space and advertising services; downloadable computer software for the acquisition, evaluation, presentation and dissemination of financial, banking, and business data; software for analyzing and evaluating online advertising; software for operating an online shop; downloadable computer software for managing cryptocurrency transactions using blockchain technology; downloadable computer software for managing and validating cryptocurrency transactions using blockchain-based smart contracts; downloadable computer software for managing and verifying cryptocurrency transactions on a blockchain; downloadable software to create virtual currencies; computer hardware for making, authenticating, facilitating, operating, managing, and processing payment transactions with credit cards, debit cards, prepaid cards, payment cards, gift cards, and other payment forms; electronic devices, namely point of sale terminals, chip card readers, credit card readers, payment card readers, mobile credit card readers for use with mobile phones, wired and wireless charging stands for use with point-of-sale terminals; magnetic encoded and coded card readers; card readers; card readers for payment and credit cards; credit cards, namely, encoded credit cards, encoded prepaid credit cards, magnetically encoded credit cards; prepaid gift cards; prepaid debit cards, namely, encoded prepaid debit cards, magnetically encoded prepaid debit cards and stored value cards; virtual gift cards; magnetically encoded credit cards and payment cards; magnetically encoded payment cards being debit cards, gift cards, prepaid gift cards, prepaid cash cards, and prepaid debit cards; magnetically encoded gift cards; parts and fittings for all the aforesaid.

Classification kind code

Class [035]
Business administration services; marketing services, namely, direct marketing services of the goods and services of others; advertising services, namely, advertising of goods and services of others via local and global computer networks; payroll administration and management services; payroll processing services; provision of an online marketplace of gift cards, shares, cryptocurrency, subscriptions, coupons, and other financial assets; providing an online marketplace for exchanging goods and services with other users via a website; business networking, namely, arranging of business introductions; arranging commercial transactions for third parties, including within the framework of e-commerce; arranging of contracts for third parties for the provision of services in the areas of logistics, packaging and storage of goods; advertising, namely, promoting the sale of goods and services of others by the transmission of advertising material and the dissemination of advertising messages, namely, images, graphics, and text, on the internet; provision of an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of goods and services where the sellers offer products for sale and the buying is done via Internet, so that the selling of goods by others via a computer network is facilitated; provision of information concerning commercial sales, namely, providing business information about sales methods; compilation and systemization of information into computer databases, namely, computer database management services, systemization of data into computer databases, compilation of information relating to financial data; provision of business management information; commercial help services, namely, help in the management of commercial functions of a commercial enterprise; statistical information, namely, compiling statistics for business purposes regarding product sales and web performances; sales promotion, namely, promoting the sale of goods and services for others through a consumer loyalty program, sales promotions for others by means of website information and public relations campaigns; providing of information for locating and presentation of goods and services of third parties in a database, namely, providing the ratings, reviews, recommendations, pricing, and providing consumer information and advice on the election of products and items to be purchased in the field of electronic payment purchases via an online computer database; merchandising and presentation of product offers, namely, business merchandising display services for others and preparing promotional and merchandising material for others; business analysis and business data analysis, namely, analysis of business management systems, business data analysis in the field of website analytics and website traffic, business management analysis, business profit analysis, strategic business analysis; providing commercial consumer information on commercial and business matters in the field of electronic payment purchases via the internet; providing an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of goods and services; arranging business contacts; arranging commercial transactions, for others, via online shops; arranging of contracts, for others, for the buying and selling of goods and services; arranging of contracts, for others, for the providing of services in the fields of logistics, packaging and storage of goods; advertising the goods and services of others, promoting the sale of goods through advertisements on the internet, promoting the goods and services of others; sales promotion for others via online websites; placing and publishing online advertisements for others; dissemination of advertising for others via the internet; assistance services in the field of sales promotion; services for determining the audience reached by advertising, namely services to determine the audience affected by advertisements; advertising, namely, advertising goods and services of others by promoting the availability of goods for delivery via a global computer network, advertising of goods and services of other via local and global computer networks; marketing, namely, marketing services in the field of evaluating markets for existing goods and services of others, marketing the goods and services of others by means of push notification technology, providing one-to-one direct marketing of the goods and services of others; preparation of advertisements for others; placement of advertisements for others; advice relating to advertising; on-line advertising for others via computer communications networks and websites; on-line advertising of goods and services for others on websites; promotion, advertising and marketing of the goods and services of others through online websites; rental of advertising space on websites; market research; public relations; creating and placing advertising materials for online advertising for others; business management assistance in the field of sales promotion; market analysis and research to determine the audience reached by advertising; publication of statistics, namely, analysis of market research data and statistics, compilation of statistics, providing statistical business information, namely, financial data providing online from a computer database and the Internet; publication of publicity texts; procurement services for others in the nature of purchasing contracts for other businesses; presentation of companies and their products or services, namely, organization and conducting of product presentations; arranging business contacts for advertisers, services in relation to customer loyalty, incentive and bonus programs; customer loyalty services for business, promotional and / or advertising purposes; organization, implementation, monitoring, and management of loyalty programs, bonus programs, and incentive schemes; administration of loyalty programs with discounts or rewards; customer loyalty promotion services [development of bonus programs for marketing purposes]; providing online information on marketing, marketing research, bonus incentive rewards to customers, advertising, customer loyalty and reward programs for others; management of customer loyalty programs; management of virtual marketplaces [web shops and online communities]; loyalty, incentive and bonus program services; customer club services, for commercial, promotional and/or advertising purposes; marketing services, namely, development of and support for customer loyalty programmes for promoting customer loyalty towards a company, including cross-sector and company-wide bonus and reward programmes; customer loyalty marketing; the provision and administration of a membership scheme to allow participants to access exclusive or discounted benefits and services; promoting the goods and services of others by means of a preferred customer program; information, consultancy and advisory services in relation to all of the aforesaid; reconciling financial transactions.

Classification kind code

Class [036]
Financial services, namely, providing secure payments for commercial transactions, processing of secure electronic payment transactions over public computer networks to facilitate electronic commerce, processing of secure cash transactions over public computer networks to facilitate electronic commerce; financial payment services, namely, payment verification services; electronic money transfer services; financial services, namely, electronic funds transfer; financial transactions, namely, reconciling of financial transactions, financial transactions clearing services, daily monitoring of financial transactions and account balances; providing a wide variety of payment and financial services, namely, credit card services, issuing credit cards and lines of credit, credit card payment processing services, providing personal and business lines of credit, electronic payment services involving electronic processing and subsequent transmission of bill payment data, bill payment services with guaranteed payment delivery, all conducted via a global communications network; providing a wide variety of banking services and providing financial services, namely, credit card services, processing and transmission of bills and payments thereof, and insurance for financial transactions conducted via global computer network; credit card and debit card transaction processing services; electronic payment administration and processing; providing payment and financial services, namely processing and acceptance of invoice payments; providing payment and financial services, namely, creating, preparing, managing, sending, processing, tracking, and reconciling invoices; payment processing services in the nature of processing reimbursements for fraudulent transactions, transaction errors, and disputed transactions, namely, transactions concerning lost, damaged, misrepresented, or incorrect products or services, all in the field of electronic payment purchases; reimbursement of funds for disputed items in the field of electronic payment purchases; providing purchase protection services for goods and services purchased by others via a global computer network and wireless networks; credit card transaction processing services; credit card transaction processing services and payment processing services in the field of credit card payments and electronic payments; credit services, namely, financial accounts management services; credit services, namely, providing revolving credit account services; bill payments services; providing electronic mobile payment services for others; credit card and payment transaction processing services; electronic foreign exchange payment processing; payment processing, namely, cryptocurrency payment processing, electronic foreign exchange payment processing, processing of credit card payments, processing of debit card payments, processing electronic wallet payments; payment processing services, namely, virtual currency exchange; payment processing services, namely, providing virtual currency transaction processing services for others; financial services, namely, providing a virtual currency for use by members of an on-line community via a global computer network; cryptocurrency trading services; issuing of digital tokens of value, namely, cryptocurrency, coupons and vouchers for customer loyalty and reward programs for the online purchase of goods via the internet; currency trading; currency exchange services; financial services, namely, providing a virtual currency; financial exchange of virtual currency; electronic transfer of virtual currencies; creation of virtual currencies; blockchain-based payment verification services; cryptocurrency exchange services featuring blockchain technology; information, consultancy and advisory services in relation to all of the aforesaid.

Classification kind code

Class [038]
Electronic data transmission, namely, email transmission of data and documents via computer terminals, providing electronic transmission of contactless payment data via the internet, providing electronic transmission of credit card transaction data and electronic payment data via a global computer network; wireless electronic transmission of data, namely, peer-to-peer network computer services, namely, electronic transmission of financial data over electronic communications networks; providing access to an electronic marketplace portal on computer networks; providing access to an e-commerce platform on the internet; providing access to an online database containing data; providing access to a searchable database featuring business information, accessible on a global computer network; providing access to websites and mobile platforms, namely, providing user access to a global computer network featuring information in the fields of shopping, retail, electronic commerce and order processing; providing chat lines, chat rooms and electronic forums on the internet; electronic exchange of messages via chat lines, chat rooms and internet forums; encrypted electronic transmission and delivery of data and information, namely, transmission of digital images over the internet; information, consultancy and advisory services in relation to all of the aforesaid.

Classification kind code

Class [042]
Software as a service [SaaS] services featuring software for financial management and software for payment processing; platform as a service [PAAS] services featuring software for financial management and software for payment processing; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for preparing invoices over computer networks, intranets and the internet; providing temporary use of online nondownloadable software for processing electronic payments; providing temporary use of online nondownloadable software for creating, preparing, managing, sending, processing, tracking, and reconciling invoices; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for issuing receipts regarding mobile payment transactions; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable computer software and webbased software platforms for facilitating, enabling and processing electronic payments and data transmission, namely, audio, video, texts, graphics, and data via mobile phones, processing of real-time payments, processing of Internet, direct connect, and computer network based payment transactions, processing of financial transactions, reading, scanning, identifying and validating of identification data, cards, codes and vouchers; computer and data security services; providing temporary use of online nondownloadable authentication software for controlling access to and communications with computers and computer networks; computerized data storage services; data storage via blockchain; cloud storage services for electronic data; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable computer software for use as a digital wallet; providing online non-downloadable computer software for use as a cryptocurrency wallet; electronic storage of cryptocurrency for others; provision of non-downloadable software, accessible via a global computer network, for the management of e-commerce websites and for the sale of goods and services in relation thereto especially for the management of website performance; managing, creating and maintaining websites for others; software as a services [SaaS] featuring software for recording data for others regarding sales and stocks in a database for tracking and categorization of goods; technical analysis and technical reporting of data, namely, computer and software engineering services in the field of financial services; providing the temporary use of online, non-downloadable e-commerce software, to enable users to conduct electronic business transactions in online marketplaces over a global computer network; creation and maintenance of websites for others; graphic design services; design and development of software and hardware; development and programming of software for arranging contracts, for others, for the buying and selling of goods and services; development and programming of software for the analysis and evaluation of offline advertising and online advertising; development and programming of software for the acquisition, evaluation, presentation and forwarding of data; creation of advertising networks for advertisers [IT services]; application service provider services [ASP], namely services for hosting the computer software applications of others; design and development of computer hardware and computer software for operating a platform for a customer loyalty program on the internet; development and creation of programs, namely databases for customer loyalty programs; technical processing of advertisements for online advertising; data encryption services; providing user authentication services using blockchain-based software technology for cryptocurrency transactions; non-downloadable software to create virtual currencies; installing web pages on the internet, for others; information, consultancy and advisory services in relation to all of the aforesaid.

Classification kind code

Mark Details

Serial Number

2259745

Mark Type

Trademark

Legal History

Action Taken	Status
Submitted for opposition 22 on 16^th Jan 2024	Search Recorded
Submitted for opposition 20 on 16^th Jan 2024	Examiner's First Report
Submitted for opposition 223 on 16^th Jan 2024	Total Provisional Refusal
Submitted for opposition 135 on 7^th Sept 2023	Amendment to Application
Submitted for opposition 48 on 28^th Jul 2023	Agent Changed
Submitted for opposition 257 on 25^th May 2023	Designation Notification - Madrid Protocol
Submitted for opposition 1 on 24^th May 2023	Created
Submitted for opposition 31 on 24^th May 2023	Formalized
Submitted for opposition 228 on 24^th Nov 2022	International Registration
Submitted for opposition 30 on 24^th Nov 2022	Filed