Classification Information
Class [4]
Lubricant and Fuel Products
Gas, in particular natural gas; Fuels and illuminants; Motor fuels and non-chemical additives therefor; Industrial oils and greases.
Class [35]
Advertising, Business & Retail Services
Wholesaling and retailing of energy carriers in the form of the aforesaid goods in class 4; Import-export agency services; Procurement services, for others, in particular procurement of external compensation quantities for energy carriers; Arranging of contracts, for others, for the buying and selling of goods and the providing of services, in particular supply and procurement contracts; Arranging of commercial and business contacts; Arranging and concluding of contracts, for others, with suppliers of energy carriers; Business management, in particular in the fields of contract, operational and load management of buying associations for the purchase of energy carriers; Outsourcing services (assistance in business matters); Professional business and organisational consultancy, in particular in the fields of the generation, procurement, transport, distribution, storage and use of energy carriers, and professional business and organisational consultancy relating to the calculation of energy costs; Commercial implementation of the physical transport of energy carriers through demand-based distribution by means of the energy schedules of others via balance groups, through organisational and professional business consultancy during the creation of energy schedules and through the creation and dispatch of documents (office functions), namely taking over of the creation and dispatch of energy schedules to market area coordinators; Office functions, in particular for balance group coordinators and the cooperation partners of a gas market area; Administrative recording of compensation quantities to energy carriers for billing purposes; IT-related services (office functions), namely invoicing for the energy market sector, gathering of usage data in computer databases, statistical analysis and compilation of the events to be invoiced into computer databases (office functions), drawing up of bills and invoicing; Order placement and delivery services and invoice management, including within the framework of e-commerce; Claims management (office functions), namely accounting, auditing and invoicing relating to the documentation and enforcement of outstanding claims, for others, other than debt collection, in particular relating to compensation quantities to energy carriers, and relating to structuring charges; Business management and organization consultancy; Business management and organisation assistance; Professional business consultancy during the purchase and sale of energy carriers; Economic forecasting in the form of demand forecasts for energy carriers; Business surveying, professional business and organisational project management; Reading of meters (fuel consumption) for the drawing up of bills for customers; Metering management; Commercial administration of the licensing of the goods and services of others; Computerised file management; Compilation of information into computer databases; Systematic ordering of data in databases; Computerised file management; Searches in computer data files (for others); Compilation of statistics; Cost price analysis; Business inquiries; Business investigation; Expert opinion on business efficiency; Marketing, in particular conducting market and sales analyses of all kinds, including field observations necessary therefor; Market research; Public relations; Advertising.
Class [38]
Communications Services
Providing of platforms and portals on the Internet, in particular for storage and delivery, transport and trading of energy carriers and processes relating thereto; Providing of access to information on data networks, in particular for storage and delivery, transport and trading of energy carriers and processes relating thereto; Providing of access to computer programs on local or global, public or private data networks, in particular computer programs and software for sectoral and highly integrated business processes for multiple users, telecommunications by means of platforms and portals on the Internet; Communications by computer terminals; Electronic transmission of encoded messages and images; Providing user access to computer programmes in data networks; Providing access to databases; Electronic data interchange; Electronic mail.
Class [39]
Transportation & Storage Services
Storage, transport, supply, forwarding, conveying and distribution of energy carriers; Supplying consumers through delivery of energy carriers; Leasing of gas distribution networks.
Class [42]
Computer & Software Services & Scientific Services
Engineering services; Technical consultation services [all fields]; Engineering project management services; Studies (technical project-); Surveying, in particular in relation to balance group and schedule management; Determination of the requirement for compensation quantities to energy carriers for billing purposes in connection with the transport of energy carriers through pipes, through technical analysis of data via nominated quantities and quantities actually used; Technological services relating to the operational management of installations for the generation, conducting, storage and/or distribution of energy carriers, including monitoring of the operating state of the aforesaid installations; Technological services in the field of load management in gas distribution networks, in particular in the field of load management and load distribution; Rental of computer programs and software, in particular to multiple users for external use via retrievable customer servers, in particular for sales promotion processes; Application service providers (ASPs), namely rental of software and computer programs for access and use via local or global, public or private data networks, including server administration and administration of software; Technological services relating to the operational management of telecommunications networks and networks for data transmission, including monitoring of the operating state of the aforesaid networks; Configuration of networks for data transmission through software; Maintenance of software for databases; Rental of web servers; Providing of electronic storage capacity for external use; Electronic data back-up and storage; Digitalisation of data from printed matter by means of computer hardware and software, included in class 42; Conversion of computer programmes and data (other than physical alteration); Computer software programming and development; Installation and maintenance of software; Updating of software; Updating of Internet pages; User management and authorisation on computer networks; Certification agency services (trust centres), namely issuing and management of digital codes and/or digital signatures; User support through IT consultancy and technical user support through technical consultancy; Advisory services relating to computer programming; Software consultancy by telephone; Architecture; Construction and design planning and consultancy; Leasing access time to databases.
