| Serial Number | 98894291 |
| Word Mark | MTN SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS |
| Filing Date | Tuesday, December 10, 2024 |
| Status | 661 - RESPONSE AFTER NON-FINAL ACTION - ENTERED |
| Status Date | Tuesday, December 9, 2025 |
| Registration Number | 0000000 |
| Registration Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Mark Drawing | 3 - Illustration: Drawing or design which also includes word(s) / letter(s) / number(s) |
| Published for Opposition Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Indication of Colors claimed | Color is not claimed as a feature of the mark. |
| Description of Mark | The mark consists of the word "SOFTWARE" on a first line and the word "SOLUTIONS" on a second line situated to the right of the capital letters "MTN" centered inside of an oval. |
| Goods and Services | 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 computer databases in the field of software engineering; Sscientific and technological services namely research and design in the field of software engineering; provision of information, namely, industrial analysis and research services in the field of software engineering; research, design and development of electronic 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 for orchestrating cloud resources, managing continuous-integration and continuous-deployment pipelines, and generating real-time analytics dashboards in the field of software engineering; data-security consultancy in the field of software engineering; data security consultancy in the field of cloud-based data protection services, namely, data security consultancy; consultancy services in the field of online non-downloadable cloud computing; consultancy services in the field of online non-downloadable cloud computing applications and networks; advisory services in the field of deploying online non-downloadable 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 online 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 website that features technology that enables users to transfer and share personal identity data among multiple online facilities; Providing an on-line searchable database, in the field of software engineering, on computer and communication networks, comprised of text, electronic documents, databases, graphics, electronic media, photographic images and audio visual information; electronic scanning of photographic images 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 computer 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 for natural-language understanding and generation to enable conversational artificial-intelligence chatbots for customer service and employee engagement in the field of software engineering |
| Goods and Services | Apparatus and instruments for conducting, switching, transforming, accumulating, regulating or controlling the distribution or use of electricity; digital media, namely, pre-recorded video cassettes, digital video discs, digital versatile discs, downloadable audio and video recordings, DVDs, and high definition digital discs featuring information relating to software engineering; downloadable and recorded computer software for connecting global computer networks, blank digital and analogue recording and storage media, excluding blank magnetic computer diskettes and tapes; downloadable and recorded computer software for designing, developing, testing and deploying mobile and web applications in the field of computer-aided software engineering; computer hardware for accelerating artificial-intelligence model training and inference in the field of computer-aided software engineering; downloadable and recorded virtual and augmented reality training simulation software for instructing software developers in secure coding, DevOps workflows and user-interface design in the field of engineering; downloadable and recorded computer application software for use in implementing the Internet of Things (IoT); Internet of Things (IoT) gateways, namely, gateway routers; downloadable and recorded application software for monitoring cloud infrastructure, automating deployment of containerised microservices and analysing real-time application-performance metrics in the field of cloud computing and software engineering; mechanisms for coin-operated apparatus; cash registers; calculating machines; computers and computer peripheral devices |
| Goods and Services | Advertising and promotion services; loyalty card services, namely, promoting the goods and services of others by means of a loyalty rewards card scheme; customer loyalty services and customer club services, for commercial, promotional and/or advertising purposes; promoting the goods and services of others by means of organisation, advertising, marketing and promotion services being operation and management of customer loyalty schemes; organisation, operation and management of sales and promotional incentive schemes for others; computerized on-line retail store services in the field of 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 exchanging goods and services with other usersbuyers 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; Services for 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 |
| Goods and Services | Providing access to Ttelecommunication access servicesnetworks, namely mobile, fixed, satellite, cellular and radio telecommunication services; providing access to telecommunications services networks, namely, mobile telephone services, voicemail, facsimile transmission and electronic data transmission; telecommunication services, namely, transmission of voice, data, graphics, images, audio and video by means of wireless communication networks 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; electronic messaging services, namely transmissions of unified electronic messages;ing 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 services, and electronic mail services for others, namely, electronic transmission of electronic mail; transmission, delivery and reception of sound, data and images by electronic transmission; telecommunications telephone services, namely, providing personal telephone numbers; hire, leasing and rental of telecommunications, telephonic and communications apparatus and instruments; loaning leasing of replacement telecommunications and communications apparatus and instruments; provision of internet access; telecommunications access services namely, providing access to global-positioning-system data and cellular-connected Internet-of-Things devices 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 |
| NOT AVAILABLE | "SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS" |
| 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 | Tuesday, December 10, 2024 |
| Primary Code | 009 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| International Class | 035 - Advertising; business management; business administration; office functions. |
| US Class Codes | 100, 101, 102 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Tuesday, December 10, 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 | Tuesday, December 10, 2024 |
| Primary Code | 038 |
| 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 | Tuesday, December 10, 2024 |
| Primary Code | 042 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Party Name | MTN Group Management Services (Pty) Ltd |
| Party Type | 10 - Original Applicant |
| Legal Entity Type | 99 - Other |
| Address | Gauteng 2195 ZA |
| Event Date | Event Description |
| Tuesday, December 10, 2024 | NEW APPLICATION ENTERED |
| Tuesday, May 27, 2025 | NEW APPLICATION OFFICE SUPPLIED DATA ENTERED |
| Tuesday, May 27, 2025 | NOTICE OF DESIGN SEARCH CODE E-MAILED |
| Wednesday, May 28, 2025 | ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER |
| Friday, June 6, 2025 | NON-FINAL ACTION WRITTEN |
| Friday, June 6, 2025 | NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED |
| Friday, June 6, 2025 | NOTIFICATION OF NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED |
| Thursday, September 4, 2025 | APPLICATION EXTENSION TO RESPONSE PERIOD - RECEIVED |
| Thursday, September 4, 2025 | APPLICATION EXTENSION GRANTED/RECEIPT PROVIDED |
| Monday, December 8, 2025 | TEAS RESPONSE TO OFFICE ACTION RECEIVED |
| Monday, December 8, 2025 | CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE |
| Tuesday, December 9, 2025 | TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED |