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On August 20, 2015, Nintendo Co., Ltd. filed in Europa via the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) a trademark application for "Mobiclip" (former name of the now by Nintendo wholly owned subsidiary Nintendo European Research & Development. It is a basic CTM application for primarily software and computer-gaming software, among some other interesting things.

Trade mark information

Name Mobiclip
Filing number 014483366
Basis CTM
Date of receipt 20/08/2015
Type Word
Nature Individual
Nice classes 9 ( Nice Classification )
Vienna Classification
Filing date 20/08/2015
Registration date
Expiry date
Designation date
Filing language English
Second language German
Application reference EW33337AFgmu
Trade mark status Application under examination
Acquired distinctiveness No

Goods and services

9 Software; computer-gaming software; downloadable software; display software for all types of media and screens and particularly for televisions, mobile telephones, fixed telephones, computers, game consoles, multimedia players; embedded software; data compression and decompression software and particularly for audio data, video data and vector rendering; data conversion software and particularly for audio data, video data and vector rendering; computer programs.

Owners

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

ID 110078
Organisation Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Legal status Legal entity
Country JP - Japan
State/county n/a
Town Minami-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
Post code 601-8501
Address
11-1 Hokotate-cho, Kamitoba
Correspondence address
Nintendo Co., Ltd.
11-1 Hokotate-cho, Kamitoba
Minami-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 601-8501
JAPÓN

Source: https://oami.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/014483366

We know since before a bit of NERD's business; from their webpage:

Nintendo European Research & Development (formerly Mobiclip) is a subsidiary of Nintendo located in Paris, specialized in the field of highly optimised software technologies. We are committed to providing the gaming industry with the latest innovations in middleware.

I haven't seen mention of vector rendering in NERD context before however. Exactly what they mean by vector rendering I don't know, but it usually means something like this (from Autodesk):

You can use the Maya Vector renderer to create stylized renderings (for example, cartoon, tonal art, line art, hidden line, wireframe) in various bitmap image formats (for example, IFF, TIFF, and so on) or in the following 2D vector formats:

Adobe® Flash® (non-interactive) version 3, 4 or 5 (SWF)
Adobe® Illustrator® version 8 (AI)
Encapsulated PostScript Level 2 (EPS)
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

Source: http://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2015/ENU/?guid=GUID-973D2F51-EB45-49FF-8767-6DE669A2CA5D

As to why they are filing a trademark for this particular name I don't really understand (since that company is now called NERD). But there you have it anyway.

 

[BocoDragon]

 

[stan423321]

Maybe it has something to do with mobile middleware, given that's what Mobiclip did earlier, I think?