"Ruyi Service" Trademark Reconsideration Case

2025-11-19
In June 2012, ZYIP, on behalf of China Great Wall Computer Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "the applicant"), applied to the National Trademark Office for the "Ruyi Service" trademark (hereinafter referred to as the "application trademark") in the goods of category 37, such as "installation and repair of electrical equipment, installation and repair of lighting equipment", etc. The application was rejected by the Trademark Office with a rejection notice of trademark ZC11111401BH1, citing the reason that the trademark was similar to the Ruyitong trademark registered by China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. in similar services, and therefore, in accordance with Article 32 of the Trademark Law, it was rejected. 

The applicant was not satisfied with the rejection decision made by the Trademark Office. Therefore, on September 2013, ZYIP entrusted the applicant to file a request for reconsideration of the rejection with the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board. The agent of our firm pointed out that to determine whether two services are similar, a comprehensive judgment should be made from aspects such as the content, method, purpose, and target consumer group of the services, based on whether it causes confusion or misunderstanding among the relevant public. The "Similar Goods and Services Classification Table" can be used as a reference for judging whether the services are similar, but it is not the standard for judging similarity, nor is it a legal basis: 

1. The designated service items of the reconsideration trademark and the registered service items of the cited trademark do not constitute similar goods;

2. The shapes, sounds, meanings, and overall appearance of the reconsideration trademark and the cited trademark are significantly different, and they do not constitute similar trademarks; 

3. The reconsideration trademark has a very extensive usage foundation. 


Please provide the text that needs to be translated accurately and fluently into The Trademark Review and Adjudication Board accepted the agent's opinion of ZYIP and held that the contested trademark and the cited trademark do not constitute similar trademarks on similar goods, and can serve to distinguish the source of the goods, thus it can be preliminarily approved and announced.
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