Can someone explain to me what the implications of this trademark could be? Would that mean that a store that sells books and would have the word Book in their logo or brand could expect a lawsuit?
I'm not that familiar with trademarks and such.
I'm not that familiar with trademarks and such.
* Downloadable e-commerce computer software to allow users to perform electronic business transactions via a global computer and communication networks
* Magnetically encoded gift cards;
* Software for accessing and viewing text, images and electronic data relating to conferences in the field of software development;
* Software for making reservations and bookings;
* Software for ordering and/or purchasing goods and services
* Software to enable accessing, displaying, editing, linking, sharing and otherwise providing electronic media and information via the internet and communications networks
That'll be interesting in the UK and Ireland, at least, given the existence of National Book Tokens (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Tokens, https://www.nationalbooktokens.com), which I believe are magstripe-based these days.
The word BOOKing should be a giant flag that they're trying to trademark the generic name there. Reservation book, order book, etc all come from physical books. It would be a giant stretch to try to trademark book for software covering those things.
Facebook is trying to register "book" for class 9 (Computer and Software Products and Electrical and Scientific Products).
The bookstore would most likely be in class 16 (Paper and Printed Material Products) and therefore won't be affected.