| Serial Number | 79333274 |
| Word Mark | VAY |
| Filing Date | Monday, November 29, 2021 |
| Status | 700 - REGISTERED |
| Status Date | Tuesday, February 27, 2024 |
| Registration Number | 7312179 |
| Registration Date | Tuesday, February 27, 2024 |
| Mark Drawing | 4 - Illustration: Drawing with word(s) / letter(s) / number(s) in Block form |
| Published for Opposition Date | Tuesday, December 12, 2023 |
| Goods and Services | Scientific, research, navigation, surveying, photographic, cinematographic, audiovisual, optical, weighing, measuring, signalling, detecting, testing, inspecting, life-saving and teaching apparatus and instruments, namely, camera sensors for visual signals which give surround views around vehicles, internal and external microphones which provide audio signals from vehicle cabins and traffic environment, GPS devices which provide the location of vehicles; apparatus and instruments for conducting, switching, transforming, accumulating, regulating or controlling the distribution or use of electricity, namely, electricity distribution consoles, circuit breakers, transformers, power meters, voltage regulators, electrical switches, electric power converters, surge protectors, electrical connectors, electrical control panels, electrical relays, electrical fuses, electrical meters, electrical controllers, electric generators; downloadable computer software for autonomous-driving vehicles, vehicles, remote controlled vehicles, autonomous car-sharing, remote driving control systems for vehicles; blank digital or analogue recording and storage media, namely, blank cd-rs, blank dvd-rs, blank optical discs, blank usb flash drives, blank external hard drives, blank memory cards, blank digital storage media; computers and computer peripheral devices; computers for autonomous-driving vehicles; driving control systems for vehicles primarily comprised of vehicle mounted GPS sensors for determining the rate of motion for a vehicle, remote control devices for steering and accelerating vehicles, cameras for capturing real-time video feed of the vehicle's surroundings, communication devices for transmitting and receiving data between the vehicle and remote operator, embedded software for remotely controlling vehicle movements and functions, haptic feedback devices for providing tactile feedback to the remote operator, sensors for detecting and relaying vehicle status information, such as speed, battery level, and temperature, actuators for remotely controlling vehicle mechanisms, such as steering, braking, and acceleration, telemetry systems for monitoring and transmitting vehicle performance data, emergency stop mechanisms for immediate cessation of vehicle movement, data encryption and security features for ensuring secure communication between the vehicle and remote operator; remote driving control systems for vehicles primarily comprised of vehicle mounted GPS sensors for determining the rate of motion for a vehicle, remote control devices for steering and accelerating vehicles, cameras for capturing real-time video feed of the vehicle's surroundings, communication devices for transmitting and receiving data between the vehicle and remote operator, embedded software for remotely controlling vehicle movements and functions, haptic feedback devices for providing tactile feedback to the remote operator, sensors for detecting and relaying vehicle status information, such as speed, battery level, and temperature, actuators for remotely controlling vehicle mechanisms, such as steering, braking, and acceleration, telemetry systems for monitoring and transmitting vehicle performance data, emergency stop mechanisms for immediate cessation of vehicle movement, data encryption and security features for ensuring secure communication between the vehicle and remote operator; downloadable and recorded computer programs for use in controlling, managing, facilitating, enhancing, optimizing, coordinating, enabling, monitoring, regulating, overseeing, facilitating, streamlining, fine-tuning, automating, integrating, calibrating, adjusting, adapting, safeguarding, synchronizing, analyzing, operating, teleoperating, teledriving, driving autonomous and remote driving of vehicles; electronic remote control apparatus for controlling vehicles; downloadable and recorded computer software for the remote control of vehicles; downloadable and recorded mobile application software for controlling, managing, facilitating, enhancing, optimizing, coordinating, enabling, monitoring, regulating, overseeing, facilitating, streamlining, fine-tuning, automating, integrating, calibrating, adjusting, adapting, safeguarding, synchronizing, analyzing, operating, teleoperating, teledriving, driving autonomous driving vehicles, for controlling remote controlled vehicles and for controlling, managing, facilitating, enhancing, optimizing, coordinating, enabling, monitoring, regulating, overseeing, facilitating, streamlining, fine-tuning, automating, integrating, calibrating, adjusting, adapting, safeguarding, synchronizing, analyzing, operating, teleoperating, teledriving, driving autonomous carsharing; downloadable and recorded software and applications for controlling, managing, facilitating, enhancing, optimizing, coordinating, enabling, monitoring, regulating, overseeing, facilitating, streamlining, fine-tuning, automating, integrating, calibrating, adjusting, adapting, safeguarding, synchronizing, analyzing, operating, teleoperating, teledriving, driving autonomous driving vehicles, for controlling, managing, facilitating, enhancing, optimizing, coordinating, enabling, monitoring, regulating, overseeing, facilitating, streamlining, fine-tuning, automating, integrating, calibrating, adjusting, adapting, safeguarding, synchronizing, analyzing, operating, teleoperating, teledriving, driving remote controlled vehicles and for controlling, managing, facilitating, enhancing, optimizing, coordinating, enabling, monitoring, regulating, overseeing, facilitating, streamlining, fine-tuning, automating, integrating, calibrating, adjusting, adapting, safeguarding, synchronizing, analyzing, operating, teleoperating, teledriving, driving autonomous carsharing; excluding goods related to rail vehicles, railway infrastructure or railway traffic |
| Goods and Services | Packaging and storage of goods; car sharing services; car-pooling services being car sharing services; vehicle rental services; arranging of passenger transportation services for others; arranging of passenger transportation services for others via an online application; arranging of passenger transportation services for others via mobile application; planning, arranging and booking of travel tickets by electronic means; providing information relating to travel and transport via electronic means; providing information relating to travel and transport via mobile applications; providing information relating to vehicle driving services; reservation services for travel by land; services for the escorting of travellers; transport of persons and goods by road, including by automobile and lorry, by sea and air; mail delivery and courier services; chauffeur services; chauffeur driven car hire services; excluding services related to rail vehicles, railway infrastructure or railway traffic |
| Goods and Services | Telecommunications, namely, electronic data transmission, providing voice communication services, video streaming services via the internet, remote vehicle control services in the nature of electronic data transmission for controlling vehicles; real-time vehicle telemetry services in the nature of wireless electronic transmission of real-time vehicle data via telemetry; remote monitoring services to ascertain the geographic locations of vehicles in the nature of electronic data transmission of the geographic locations of vehicles; vehicle-to-vehicle communication services in the nature of electronic data transmission between vehicles; vehicle-to-infrastructure communication services in the nature of electronic data transmission between vehicles and computer terminals; remote driver assistance services in the nature of telephone communications services for drivers; remote diagnostics services in the nature of electronic transmission of diagnostic information, 2g cellular network communication, 3g cellular network communication, 4g cellular network communication, 5g cellular network communication, lte cellular network communication, gsm cellular network communication, cdma cellular network communication, umts cellular network communication, hspa cellular network communication, ev-do cellular network communication, voice over lte (volte) network communication services, L4s (low latency, low loss, scalable throughput) network communication services, communications by fiber optic networks, communications by wired networks, satellite communication services, microwave communication services, local area network communication services, computer network access services by means of a metro ethernet, wireless broadband communication services |
| Goods and Services | Advertising services; business management; business administration; providing office functions |
| Goods and Services | Vehicles, namely, cars, passenger land vehicles and logistic land vehicles; apparatus for locomotion by land, air or water, namely, cars, passenger land vehicles and logistic land vehicles; autonomous vehicles, namely, cars, passenger vehicles and logistic vehicles; remote controlled land vehicles; remotely operated vehicles, namely, cars, passenger land vehicles and logistic land vehicles; driverless cars; driverless autonomous motor vehicles, namely, cars, passenger land vehicles and logistic land vehicles; excluding goods related to rail vehicles, railway infrastructure or railway traffic |
| Goods and Services | Scientific and technological services and research and design services relating thereto, namely, engineering services for teleoperated vehicles and telestations, software development for teleoperated vehicles and telestations, computer system integration services, testing and validation of teleoperated vehicles and telestations, custom design of prototypes for teleoperated vehicles and telestations, data analysis for teleoperated vehicles and telestations, virtual testing of new product designs using computer simulations, algorithm development services, human-machine interface design, sensor technology research, remote vehicle control system research, teleoperation system design, autonomous vehicle research, machine learning and AI research; industrial analysis and industrial research services, namely, analysis of industrial fluids, performance evaluation of remote driving systems, safety assessment of teleoperated vehicles, efficiency analysis of remote vehicle control technologies, risk assessment of autonomous driving systems, feasibility studies for remote driving implementation, technology benchmarking in the field of teleoperation, data analysis for optimizing remote driving performance, research on human factors in teleoperated vehicle operations, analysis of environmental impact of remote driving systems; design and development of computer hardware and software; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for providing transportation services, bookings for transportation services and for dispatching motorised vehicles to customers; excluding services related to rail vehicles, railway infrastructure or railway traffic |
| 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 | Friday, February 11, 2022 |
| 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 | Friday, February 11, 2022 |
| Primary Code | 009 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| International Class | 012 - Vehicles; apparatus for locomotion by land, air, or water. |
| US Class Codes | 019, 021, 023, 031, 035, 044 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Friday, February 11, 2022 |
| Primary Code | 012 |
| 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 | Friday, February 11, 2022 |
| Primary Code | 035 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| International Class | 039 - Transport; packaging and storage of goods; travel arrangement. |
| US Class Codes | 100, 105 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Friday, February 11, 2022 |
| Primary Code | 039 |
| 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 | Friday, February 11, 2022 |
| Primary Code | 042 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Party Name | Vay Technology GmbH |
| Party Type | 30 - Original Registrant |
| Legal Entity Type | 16 - Limited Liability Company |
| Address | DE |
| Party Name | Vay Technology GmbH |
| Party Type | 20 - Owner at Publication |
| Legal Entity Type | 16 - Limited Liability Company |
| Address | DE |
| Party Name | Vay Technology GmbH |
| Party Type | 10 - Original Applicant |
| Legal Entity Type | 16 - Limited Liability Company |
| Address | DE |
| Event Date | Event Description |
| Thursday, February 10, 2022 | SN ASSIGNED FOR SECT 66A APPL FROM IB |
| Friday, February 11, 2022 | NEW APPLICATION OFFICE SUPPLIED DATA ENTERED |
| Tuesday, February 15, 2022 | APPLICATION FILING RECEIPT MAILED |
| Thursday, September 8, 2022 | ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER |
| Tuesday, September 20, 2022 | NON-FINAL ACTION WRITTEN |
| Wednesday, September 21, 2022 | NON-FINAL ACTION (IB REFUSAL) PREPARED FOR REVIEW |
| Thursday, December 1, 2022 | REFUSAL PROCESSED BY MPU |
| Friday, December 2, 2022 | NON-FINAL ACTION MAILED - REFUSAL SENT TO IB |
| Sunday, December 25, 2022 | NEW REPRESENTATIVE AT IB RECEIVED |
| Wednesday, December 28, 2022 | REFUSAL PROCESSED BY IB |
| Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | TEAS RESPONSE TO OFFICE ACTION RECEIVED |
| Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE |
| Thursday, June 1, 2023 | TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED |
| Thursday, July 6, 2023 | FINAL REFUSAL WRITTEN |
| Thursday, July 6, 2023 | FINAL REFUSAL E-MAILED |
| Thursday, July 6, 2023 | NOTIFICATION OF FINAL REFUSAL EMAILED |
| Wednesday, July 12, 2023 | NOTIFICATION OF POSSIBLE OPPOSITION CREATED, TO BE SENT TO IB |
| Wednesday, July 12, 2023 | NOTIFICATION OF POSSIBLE OPPOSITION SENT TO IB |
| Monday, July 31, 2023 | NOTIFICATION OF POSSIBLE OPPOSITION - PROCESSED BY IB |
| Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | TEAS REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION RECEIVED |
| Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE |
| Thursday, October 12, 2023 | TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED |
| Tuesday, November 7, 2023 | APPROVED FOR PUB - PRINCIPAL REGISTER |
| Wednesday, November 22, 2023 | NOTIFICATION OF POSSIBLE OPPOSITION SENT TO IB |
| Wednesday, November 22, 2023 | NOTIFICATION OF NOTICE OF PUBLICATION E-MAILED |
| Wednesday, November 22, 2023 | NOTICE OF START OF OPPOSITION PERIOD CREATED, TO BE SENT TO IB |
| Monday, December 11, 2023 | NOTIFICATION PROCESSED BY IB |
| Tuesday, December 12, 2023 | PUBLISHED FOR OPPOSITION |
| Tuesday, December 12, 2023 | OFFICIAL GAZETTE PUBLICATION CONFIRMATION E-MAILED |
| Tuesday, February 27, 2024 | REGISTERED-PRINCIPAL REGISTER |
| Tuesday, February 27, 2024 | NOTICE OF REGISTRATION CONFIRMATION EMAILED |
| Friday, August 30, 2024 | NEW REPRESENTATIVE AT IB RECEIVED |
| Saturday, August 31, 2024 | FINAL DISPOSITION NOTICE CREATED, TO BE SENT TO IB |
| Thursday, November 14, 2024 | FINAL DISPOSITION PROCESSED |
| Friday, November 15, 2024 | FINAL DISPOSITION NOTICE SENT TO IB |
| Saturday, December 7, 2024 | FINAL DECISION TRANSACTION PROCESSED BY IB |