The trademark application MTN Software Solutions was filed by MTN GROUP MANAGEMENT SERVICES (PTY) LTD, a corporation established under the laws of the Republic of South Africa (the "Applicant"). Application under examination.
The application was filed in English (German was selected as the second language).
Goods And Services
The mark was filed in class 9 with following description of goods:
Apparatus and instruments for conducting, switching, transforming, accumulating, regulating or controlling the distribution or use of electricity
Apparatus and instruments for recording, transmitting, reproducing or processing sound, images or data
Recorded and downloadable media, namely, downloadable audio and video recordings featuring information relating to software engineering
Downloadable and recorded computer software for connecting global computer networks, blank digital and analogue recording and storage media
Downloadable and recorded computer software for use in computer-aided software engineering
Computer hardware for use in computer-aided software engineering
Downloadable and recorded virtual and augmented reality training simulation software in the field of engineering
Downloadable and recorded computer application software for use in implementing the Internet of Things
IoT gateways, namely, gateway routers
Downloadable and recorded application software in the field of cloud computing and software engineering
Mechanisms for coin-operated apparatus
Cash registers
Calculating machines
Computers and computer peripheral devices.
The mark was filed in class 35 with following description of goods:
Advertising and promotion services
Loyalty card services, namely, promoting the goods and services of others by means of a loyalty rewards card scheme
Promoting the goods and services of others by means of organisation, operation and management of customer loyalty schemes
Organisation, operation and management of sales and promotional incentive schemes
The bringing together, for the benefit of others, of a variety of software goods and software engineering services enabling customers to conveniently view and purchase those goods and services, including such services provided online from a computer database
Providing a website featuring an online marketplace for buyers and sellers of goods and services
Arranging and conducting of exhibitions for business purposes
Business management
Business administration
Providing office functions
Economic forecasting, marketing, market research, market analysis and survey services
Provision of trade information
Provision of directory services, namely providing online web directory services featuring hyperlinks to the websites of others
Information and advisory services relating to the aforementioned.
The mark was filed in class 38 with following description of goods:
Telecommunication access services, namely mobile, fixed, satellite, cellular and radio telecommunication services
Telecommunications services, namely, mobile telephone services, voicemail, facsimile transmission and electronic data transmission
Wireless communication services, namely, wireless mobile telephone calling plans, electronic messaging and data transmission service plans
Electronic messaging services, namely, sending, receiving and forwarding messages in the form of text, audio, graphic images and video
Online electronic messaging services
Unified electronic messaging services
Computer aided transmission of messages and images
Video conferencing services
Video telephone services
Teleconferencing services
Voice over internet protocol (VOIP) services
Paging services
Telephone telecommunications services provided via prepaid telephone calling cards
Telecommunications services, namely, providing prepaid minutes for use on mobile phones
Providing telephone communication and internet telephony services
Telephone and mobile telephone voice and text message collection and transmission, radio-paging, call forwarding, and electronic mail services for others, namely, transmission of electronic mail
Transmission, delivery and reception of sound, data and images by electronic transmission
Telecommunications services, namely, providing personal telephone numbers
Hire, leasing and rental of telecommunications, telephonic and communications apparatus and instruments
Loaning of replacement telecommunications and communications apparatus and instruments
Provision of internet access
Telecommunications access services for use with locating and tracking of persons and objects
Providing private and secure real time electronic communication over a computer network in the nature of provision of wireless application protocol services, such as those utilizing a secure communications channel
Provision of information relating to or identifying telecommunications and communications apparatus and instruments
Broadcast and transmission of radio and television programmes via the internet
Providing telecommunications connections to computer databases, the internet and electronic communications networks
Provision of wireless electronic transmission of credit and debit card transaction data and wireless electronic savings and payment data via a global computer network
Providing access to websites featuring digital audio, video and data from a database, the internet, and other electronic communications networks
Streaming of audio and video material on the internet
Telecommunication and communication database development services, such as enabling the consumer to download digital content from a network and server to an individual database
Providing third party users with access to telecommunications infrastructures
Providing computer databases in the field of software engineering
Providing information in the field of data communications
Communication services for the Internet of Things, namely, providing electronic transmission of information stored in a database via interactively communicating computer systems, providing voice communication services via the Internet
Advisory, information and consultancy services relating to all the aforementioned.
The mark was filed in class 42 with following description of goods:
Scientific and technological services namely research and design in the field of software engineering
Industrial analysis and research services in the field of software engineering
Research, design and development of information and communications technology
Design and development of computer hardware and software
Software engineering services
Engineering and technical support services for the design and configuration of hardware and software systems
Cloud computing services, namely, providing temporary use of online non-downloadable cloud computing software in the field of software engineering
Cloud-based data protection services, namely, data security consultancy
Consultancy services in the field of cloud computing
Consultancy services in the field of cloud computing applications and networks
Advisory services in the field of deploying cloud computing environments in the field of infrastructure as a service
Design of unified communications services
Computer programming consultancy in the field of cybersecurity
Cybersecurity services in the nature of technology consultation in the field of cybersecurity
Technological consultancy services in the field of cybersecurity
Application service provider (APS) featuring application programming interface (API) software for providing, hosting, managing, developing, and maintaining applications, software, websites, and databases in the fields of wireless communication, mobile information access, and remote data management for wireless delivery of content to handheld computers, laptops and mobile electronic devices
Providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software and applications in the field of software engineering
Computer services, namely, creating virtual communities for registered users to participate in discussions, get feedback from their peers, and engage in social, business and community networking
Computer services, namely, hosting websites for others for interactive discussions via communication networks
Application service provider (ASP) featuring application programming interface (API) software to enable and facilitate the creating, editing, uploading, downloading, accessing, viewing, posting, displaying, tagging, blogging, streaming, linking, annotating, indicating sentiment about, commenting on, embedding, transmitting, and sharing and providing electronic media and information via computer and communication networks
Providing an online social network service that enables users to transfer and share personal identity data among multiple online facilities
Providing information relating to software engineering from searchable indexes and databases of information, namely, text, electronic documents, databases, graphics, electronic media, photographic images and audio visual information, on computer and communication networks
Digital imaging services, namely, electronic scanning of photographic images
Computer graphics services, namely, rendering of computer graphics
Providing non-downloadable e-commerce software to allow users to perform electronic business transactions via global computer network
Application service provider featuring application programming interface (API) software to allow users to perform electronic business transactions via a global computer network
Software as a service (SaaS) services featuring software in the field of software engineering.