The trademark STARLING was filed by Eigen Vermogen Digitaal Vlaanderen, overheid van het Vlaamse Gewest en van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, a corporation established under the laws of the Kingdom of Belgium (the "Applicant"). The application was published for oppositions on October 4, 2022, and received one opposition filed on January 4, 2023 by Starling Trust Sciences, LLC on (a) Art. 8(4), (b) Identity of marks and Goods and Services, (c) Likelihood of confusion, (d) Unfair advantage and detriment to distinctiveness or repute. the opponent was represented by CSY Europe and proceedings were handled in English, and the oppositon was dismissed by the Euorpean Union Intellectual Property Office with decision issued January 4, 2023
The application was filed in Dutch, and Dutch was also language of all opposition proceedings (English was selected as the second language).
Change of name and professional address of the trademark registration was recorded on May 8, 2023.
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 35 with following description of goods:
Data processing, systematisation and management
Consultancy in relation to the following services: Data processing, Data systematisation and Data management
Authentication, in relation to the following services: Data processing
Transcription of data
Business administration
Commercial management services
Business administration
Consultancy in relation to the following services: Business management and administration of businesses
Compilation of data in computer databases and Systematic ordering of data in computer databases
Compiling and analyzing statistics, data and other sources of information for business purposes
Promotion services
Company office secretarial services.
The mark was filed in class 38 with following description of goods:
Data transmission services over telecommunications networks
Remote data access services
Providing access to databases
Consultancy relating to data transmission.
The mark was filed in class 41 with following description of goods:
Education
Teaching
Arranging and conducting of seminars, Arranging and conducting of workshops and Arranging and conducting of other events For educational purposes
Making available of electronic publications (not downloadable)
The provision of training, in relation to the following fields: Data processing
The provision of training in relation to the following fields: Data tranmission
The provision of training, in relation to the following fields: Data conversion
The provision of training in relation to the following fields: Data migration
The provision of training, in relation to the following goods: software
The provision of training in relation to the following fields: computer programming.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Research and development services
Data storage
Data mining
Data migration services
Services in relation to the following fields: Data conversion services
Draughting and Development in relation to the following goods: Data anonymisation software, computer software for date processing, Data migration software and software for the storage of data
Draughting and Development in relation to the following goods: Apparatus for anonymising, processing and migrating data and Apparatus for data storage
Draughting and Development in relation to the following goods: Systems for anonymising, processing, migrating and storing data
Technical data analysis
IT consultancy services, Consultancy and Information services in relation to the following goods: data
Computer programming, in relation to the following services: Data anonymisation, Data analysis, Data processing and Exchange of data
Software as a service [SaaS], in relation to the following goods: Data anonymisation software, computer software for date processing, Data migration software and software for the storage of data
Software as a service [SaaS] services featuring software for machine learning, deep learning and deep neural networks
Software as a service [SaaS], in relation to the following goods: artificial intelligence software
Consultancy relating to the following fields: Artificial intelligence
Provision, in relation to the following goods: Computer programs for artificial intelligence on data networks.