Numchi trademark approved for publication for the following categories.

Class 9
Computers, their peripherals, software, scientific, nautical, surveying, electric, weighing, measuring, photographic, cinematographic, optical, signaling, checking (supervision), life-saving and teaching apparatus and instruments; 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 and data processing equipment; fire-extinguishing apparatus.

Class 39
Transportation and Storage This class includes mainly services rendered in transporting people or goods from one place to another (by rail, road, water, air or pipeline) and services necessarily connected with such transport, as well as services relating to the storing of goods in a warehouse or other building for their preservation or guarding. In addition the class also includes storage on magnetic media.

Class 42.
Scientific and technological services and research and design relating thereto: industrial analysis and research services; design and development of computer hardware and software; legal services.

Explanatory Note

Class 42 includes mainly services provided by persons, individually or collectively, in relation to the theoretical and practical aspects of complex fields of activities; such services are provided by members of professions such as chemists, physicists, engineers, computer specialists, lawyers, etc.

This Class includes, in particular:

• the services of engineers who undertake evaluations, estimates, research and reports in the scientific and technological fields
• scientific research services for medical purposes

This Class does not include, in particular:

• business research and evaluations (Cl. 35);
• word processing and computer file management services (Cl. 35);
• financial and fiscal evaluations (Cl. 36);
• mining and oil extraction (Cl. 37);
• computer (hardware) installation and repair services (Cl. 37);
• services provided by the members of professions such as medical doctors, veterinary surgeons, psychoanalysts (Cl. 44);
• medical treatment services (Cl. 44);
• garden design (Cl. 44).

As I understand trademarks, the date of first use in commerce is also important in establishing a right to trademark something without challenge from a competitor. As a long term investor, I look forward to Nunchi becoming a commercially successful product.