| Serial Number | 98341525 |
| Word Mark | HKEX |
| Filing Date | Thursday, January 4, 2024 |
| Status | 686 - PUBLISHED FOR OPPOSITION |
| Status Date | Tuesday, March 11, 2025 |
| Registration Number | 0000000 |
| Registration Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Mark Drawing | 2 - Illustration: Drawing or design without any word(s) / letter(s) / number(s) |
| Published for Opposition Date | Tuesday, March 11, 2025 |
| Goods and Services | Education and training services, namely, classes relating to finance, computer, derivatives, securities and futures industry, derivatives, securities and futures clearing, settlement and deposit, brokers' back office operations, money clearing and settlement, risk management; publishing services; electronic publishing, namely, electronic publishing of electronic publications; publication of printed matter, publication of periodicals, publication of printed written articles, texts, books and magazines; publication of materials being electronic publications which can be accessed from computer databases or from the Internet; publication of information being publishing of electronic publications on the internet; publication of electronic publications in the field of business, commercial and company information and reports; publication of electronic publications in the field of financial information, reports and indices; publication of information being publication of electronic publications electronically via computer networks or telecommunications network; providing on-line non-downloadable electronic publications, namely, books, booklets, magazines, periodicals, newspapers, journals, articles, brochures, pamphlets in the fields of finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations; providing online non-downloadable video in the fields of finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations. |
| Description of Mark | The mark consists of stylized wording "HKEX" above Chinese characters with the left half of the "X" appearing in red and the remainder of the mark appearing in blue. |
| NOT AVAILABLE | The non-Latin characters in the mark transliterate to XIANG GANG JIAO YI SUO and this means HONG KONG EXCHANGE in English. |
| Goods and Services | Electronic publications, namely, books, written articles, magazines in the fields of finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations; prerecorded electronic, magnetic and optical data media featuring finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations stored on computers; blank magnetic and optical means in the form of optical discs, video tapes, exposed camera films, audio cassettes, magnetic discs, magnetic tapes for tape recorders, CD-Roms for sound or video recording, microfiches and sensitized exposed microfilms; downloadable and recorded computer software for clearing of derivatives, securities and futures trading activities; downloadable video recordings featuring finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations; downloadable publications in electronic form being books, written articles, magazines in the fields of finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations supplied on-line from a database, the intranet, via a global computer network, via telecommunications network, and from web pages on the internet; downloadable posters. |
| Goods and Services | Electronic transmission of data, messages and information by computer, teleprinter, teleletter, electronic mail and facsimile machines; computer communication services, namely, electronic transmission of data and documents among users of computers; providing of telecommunications access to users to enable trading activities to be conducted via the Internet, intranet, computer networks, telecommunications networks or television; providing user access to computer networks and computer databases. |
| Goods and Services | Printed matter, namely, books, booklets, magazines, periodicals, newspapers, journals, articles, brochures, pamphlets in the fields of finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations; advertisement boards of paper and cardboard; printed booklets in the field of finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations; printed notebooks; drawing books; writing books; printed occasion cards; printed graphs; printed investing guides; printed catalogues in the fields of finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations; printed forms; printed posters; printed books in the field of finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations; printed publications, namely, books, booklets, magazines, periodicals, newspapers, journals, articles, brochures, pamphlets in the fields of finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations; printed manuals in the fields of finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations; printed instructional books in the fields of finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations; printed periodicals in the fields of finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations; printed magazines in the fields of finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations; bookbinding materials, namely, bookbinding cloth and tape; printed easy-pull advertising paper banners; paper event backdrops for use in photography for advertising purposes; news publications, namely, printed news articles in the fields of finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations; promotional pictures in the nature of printed photographs; envelope sealing machines, for offices; boxes of cardboard and paper; document folders being folders for paper; stamps being postage stamps, rubber stamps and office seals; stationery; adhesives for stationery purposes; printed instructional and teaching materials in the field of finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations; Architectural models; three dimensional models for educational purposes. |
| Goods and Services | Clearing and settlement being financial services in the nature of trading of derivatives, securities, stock and futures; derivatives, securities and futures financial risk management services; brokers' back office system services, namely, financial clearing-houses; provision of information relating to the aforesaid; derivatives, securities and futures brokers surveillance services, namely, monitoring financial markets for investment purposes; depository and nominee services, namely, assisting others with the completion of financial transactions relating to derivatives, securities and futures; financial information services in relation to derivatives, securities and futures; financial information services; provision of financial guarantee; financial services, namely, financial consultancy services; organisation of trading markets for the trading of derivatives, securities and futures, namely, financial administration of stock exchange trading of shares and other financial securities in financial markets; price quotations for derivatives, stocks and futures; financial research services; compilation of financial analysis and updating of, dissemination and provision of financial information; provision of pricing information about indices; financial transactions services, namely, providing secure commercial transactions and payment options; provision of financial investment information; organising and conducting derivatives, securities and futures trading via the Internet, intranet, computer networks, telecommunications network or television; provision of interactive information in the field of finance and financial investment on-line from computer database or the Internet; provision of a financial market for the trading of securities and futures; quotations for stocks and futures exchange prices; financial reports and indices; conducting trading in securities and financial products, namely, futures, options, options on futures and forwards based on such asset classes as equity, fixed income, debt securities, currencies, interest rate, commodities and energy, and indices relating thereto; financial clearing houses, namely, clearing of stock and futures trading via computer networks; shares and securities registration services being share and securities underwriting; provision of statistical financial information relating to the derivatives, securities and futures industry. |
| Indication of Colors claimed | The color(s) red and blue is/are claimed as a feature of the mark. |
| Goods and Services | Provision of business information and business research information; compilation of information regarding business, commercial, and company information into computer databases; updating information in registries regarding business, commercial, and company information; dissemination of advertising material and provision of business, commercial and company information and business reports; compilation and processing of computerized data, namely, compilation of information into computer databases; preparation of business, commercial and company information and reports being preparing business reports; data processing services; computer assisted business information and research services relating to companies, businesses and commercial establishments, business and commercial enterprises; statistical information services for business or commercial purposes; business services relating to the process of buying and selling, namely, retail store services featuring publications in the fields of finance, financial instruments, financial investments, and financial valuations made on the internet, intranet, computer network, telecommunication network or television; provision of interactive information in the field of business on-line from computer database of the Internet; providing business information via computer network; online advertising services. |
| NOT AVAILABLE | the non-Latin characters that transliterate to "XIANG GANG" and "JIAO YI SUO" |
| Goods and Services | Computer programming; rental of computer programs for organising and conducting trading activities, via computer network; computer time sharing services; design and development of computer programmes; computer services, namely, providing online, non-downloadable software for compilation and processing of computerized data; computer services, namely, providing online, non-downloadable computer software for organising and conducting trading activities via computer network; computer services, namely, providing online, non- downloadable software for clearing of derivatives, securities and futures trading activities via computer networks; computer services, namely, providing online, non-downloadable software for disseminating information via computer networks. |
| International Class | 035 - Advertising; business management; business administration; office functions. |
| US Class Codes | 100, 101, 102 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Thursday, January 4, 2024 |
| Primary Code | 035 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| International Class | 038 - Services allowing people to communicate with another by a sensory means. |
| US Class Codes | 100, 101, 104 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Thursday, January 4, 2024 |
| Primary Code | 038 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| International Class | 009 - Scientific, nautical, surveying, photographic, cinematographic, optical, weighing, measuring, signalling, checking (supervision), life-saving and teaching apparatus and instruments; apparatus and instruments for conducting, switching, transforming, accumulating, regulating or controlling electricity; apparatus for recording, transmission or reproduction of sound or images; magnetic data carriers, recording discs; automatic vending machines and mechanisms for coin operated apparatus; cash registers, calculating machines, data processing equipment and computers; fire extinguishing apparatus. |
| US Class Codes | 021, 023, 026, 036, 038 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Thursday, January 4, 2024 |
| Primary Code | 009 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| International Class | 016 - Paper, cardboard and goods made from these materials, not included in other classes; printed matter; bookbinding material; photographs; stationery; adhesives for stationery or household purposes; artists' materials; paint brushes; typewriters and office requisites (except furniture); instructional and teaching material (except apparatus); plastic materials for packaging (not included in other classes); printers' type; printing blocks. |
| US Class Codes | 002, 005, 022, 023, 029, 037, 038, 050 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Thursday, January 4, 2024 |
| Primary Code | 016 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| International Class | 036 - Insurance; financial affairs; monetary affairs; real estate affairs. |
| US Class Codes | 100, 101, 102 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Thursday, January 4, 2024 |
| Primary Code | 036 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| International Class | 041 - Education; providing of training; entertainment; sporting and cultural activities. |
| US Class Codes | 100, 101, 107 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Thursday, January 4, 2024 |
| Primary Code | 041 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| International Class | 042 - Scientific and technological services and research and design relating thereto; industrial analysis and research services; design and development of computer hardware and software. |
| US Class Codes | 100, 101 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Thursday, January 4, 2024 |
| Primary Code | 042 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Party Name | Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited |
| Party Type | 20 - Owner at Publication |
| Legal Entity Type | 16 - Limited Liability Company |
| Address | Central 999077 HK |
| Party Name | Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited |
| Party Type | 10 - Original Applicant |
| Legal Entity Type | 16 - Limited Liability Company |
| Address | Central 999077 HK |
| Event Date | Event Description |
| Thursday, January 4, 2024 | NEW APPLICATION ENTERED |
| Thursday, January 11, 2024 | TEAS VOLUNTARY AMENDMENT RECEIVED |
| Tuesday, May 21, 2024 | NOTICE OF DESIGN SEARCH CODE E-MAILED |
| Tuesday, May 21, 2024 | NEW APPLICATION OFFICE SUPPLIED DATA ENTERED |
| Wednesday, July 31, 2024 | ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER |
| Monday, August 5, 2024 | NON-FINAL ACTION WRITTEN |
| Monday, August 5, 2024 | NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED |
| Monday, August 5, 2024 | NOTIFICATION OF NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED |
| Wednesday, February 5, 2025 | TEAS RESPONSE TO OFFICE ACTION RECEIVED |
| Thursday, October 31, 2024 | APPLICATION EXTENSION TO RESPONSE PERIOD - RECEIVED |
| Thursday, October 31, 2024 | APPLICATION EXTENSION GRANTED/RECEIPT PROVIDED |
| Wednesday, February 5, 2025 | CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE |
| Wednesday, February 5, 2025 | TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED |
| Thursday, February 13, 2025 | APPROVED FOR PUB - PRINCIPAL REGISTER |
| Thursday, February 13, 2025 | NOTIFICATION OF EXAMINERS AMENDMENT E-MAILED |
| Thursday, February 13, 2025 | EXAMINERS AMENDMENT -WRITTEN |
| Thursday, February 13, 2025 | EXAMINER'S AMENDMENT ENTERED |
| Thursday, February 13, 2025 | EXAMINERS AMENDMENT E-MAILED |
| Wednesday, March 5, 2025 | NOTIFICATION OF NOTICE OF PUBLICATION E-MAILED |
| Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | PUBLISHED FOR OPPOSITION |
| Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | OFFICIAL GAZETTE PUBLICATION CONFIRMATION E-MAILED |