TODAY’S TRADEMARK – IBEO ON BOARD

The IBEO on board mark is filed in the category of Class 009 Scientific, research, navigation, surveying, photographic, cinematographic, audiovisual, optical, weighing, measuring, signaling, detecting, testing, inspecting, life-saving and teaching apparatus and instruments; 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.

SICK AG registered the German trademark “IBEO” on October 19, 1983. The Complainant has full rights to use this trademark. The Complainant registered the trademarks “IBEO on board” in Europe, Switzerland, Japan and USA and “IBEO Automobile Sensor” in Germany between 2003 and 2005. The mark IBEO represents the initials of the German description of the business “Ingenieur B�ro f�r Elektronik und Optik”. The English translation is “Engineering Bureau for Electronics and Optics”.

IBEO ON BOARDS is not a well-known trademark outside of the industrial market. In addition, the “IBEO” trademark was registered in the United states of America after the Domain Name  was registered by  Netico Inc.

The IBEO on board trademark was assigned an Application Number #UK00903643079 by the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO). Trademark Application Number is a Unique ID to identify the IBEO on board mark in UKIPO, bearing registration number 3104094 on 13^th June, 2006.