{"id":1016037,"date":"2026-09-15T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindspa.me\/?p=1016037"},"modified":"2026-09-15T19:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:03:45","slug":"after-6-years-mindspa-reclaims-exclusive-use-of-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindspa.me\/es\/after-6-years-mindspa-reclaims-exclusive-use-of-its-name\/","title":{"rendered":"After 6 years, Mindspa reclaims exclusive use of its name"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nDear Mindspa users and friends.\n

\nWe have some pleasant news to share with you!\n

\nIf you have ever searched for us on the internet, you might have noticed other apps or services branding themselves as \"Mindspa\".\n

\nOften times, these other apps and services preceeded us in search rankings, outspent us in marketing budget, and have taken a significant portion of traffic away from us.\n

\nNow, after nearly six years of trademark disputes, app-store complaints and repeated cases of consumer confusion, an important chapter in Mindspa\u2019s history has finally come to a close.\n

\nLast August, a competing entity (an Estonian company previously known as Synctuition) released an update finally removing Mindspa from their name.\n

\nFor us at Mindspa, this is much more than a simple rebrand by another app. It marks the end of a long-running dispute over a name we introduced to the mental-health app market at the beginning of 2020 and have continued to build ever since.\n

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The original Mindspa<\/h2>\n
\nMindspa is a digital self-therapy and mental-health education platform created to help people better understand themselves, manage difficult emotions and build healthier psychological habits.\n

\nOur mobile app combines structured psychology courses, a therapeutic diary, coping exercises, guided meditations, educational articles, psychological tests and other self-help tools in one platform.\n

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Chronology of the trademark infringement<\/h2>\n
\nOur company, Mind Solutions Ltd, filed its MINDSPA trademark applications in the European Union and the United Kingdom on 30 December 2019, covering areas including software, mobile applications and educational services.\n

\nThe Mindspa app launched shortly afterwards, in January 2020.\n

\nLater that year, however, an Estonian meditation-app developer known at the time as Synctuition O\u00dc began using the name \u201cMindspa\u201d in advertising for its own service.\n

\nWe contacted the company in September 2020 and asked it to stop using the name. Instead, four days later, Synctuition filed applications with the European Union Intellectual Property Office for the trademarks MINDSPA and SYNCTUITION MINDSPA.\n

\nThat marked the beginning of a dispute that would continue for years.\n

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EUIPO decisions confirmed our earlier rights<\/h2>\n
\nWe opposed such trademark applications from the Estonian company. And in February 2023, the EUIPO Board of Appeal upheld the opposition and rejected the competing applications for relevant goods and services, including categories covering mobile applications and education.\n

\nBy that point, Synctuition renamed its company Mindspa O\u00dc, and ignoring the EUIPO rulings, moved ahead with a full consumer-facing rebrand of its app from Synctuition to MindSpa in March 2023.\n

\nThis created exactly the type of situation we had been trying to prevent.\n

\nTwo different mental-health apps were now using identical names in the same category, appearing alongside one another in app stores and search results.\n

\nOver the following years, we documented dozens of instances of users confusing the two businesses, including people contacting us about subscriptions, payments and services belonging to the other application.\n

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A further trademark decision in the United Kingdom<\/h2>\n
\nAnother significant development came in April 2025. The UK Intellectual Property Office partially invalidated the MINDSPA.COM trademark registration owned by the competing company across a substantial range of relevant goods and services.\n

\nThese included mobile applications, software, audio recordings and education-related services, already protected by our earlier UK trademark.\n

\nImportantly, the UKIPO found that the competing trademarks were highly similar visually, aurally and conceptually.\n

\nFor identical or similar goods and services, the decision found a likelihood of both direct and indirect consumer confusion. In practical terms, users could reasonably interpret MINDSPA.COM as an online version, extension or sub-brand of the earlier MINDSPA trademark.\n

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Apple removed the competing app from multiple markets<\/h2>\n
\nThroughout the dispute, we also approached the major app-store platforms. Apple reviewed the trademark decisions and the supporting evidence we provided and eventually restricted the competing application in a number of territories.\n

\nThese included the European Union, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Mexico, Belarus, Armenia, T\u00fcrkiye and Kazakhstan.\n

\nFor us, Apple's response demonstrated that trademark disputes of this kind can be addressed by digital platforms when sufficiently clear evidence is available.\n

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Google took a different approach.<\/h2>\n
\nWe first contacted Google about the dispute in March 2023, providing the relevant EUIPO decisions. We later supplied additional material, including the UKIPO ruling and more than 60 documented examples of consumers confusing the two applications or contacting the wrong company.\n

\nDespite this, the competing app continued to be distributed through Google Play.\n

\nGoogle's position, as communicated to us, was that it would not remove the application without a court order against the developer.\n

\nThis meant that the disputed branding remained accessible to Android users even after significant intellectual-property decisions had already been issued and after Google had received detailed notice of the situation.\n

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Bankrupcy of the infringing company<\/h2>\n
\nThe story also unfolded against major changes within the company behind the competing application.\n

\nBy January 2026, however, O\u00dc Mindspa, formerly O\u00dc Synctuition, had been declared bankrupt in Estonia, with a bankruptcy trustee appointed.\n

\nPublicly available information connected with the proceedings indicated liabilities approaching \u20ac8 million.\n

\nSeveral months later came the most visible change of all.\n

\nOn 3 August 2026, while still being operated by the same individuals, the infringing application abandoned the Mindspa branding and chose a different name.\n

\nFor our team, that change represents the conclusion of a conflict that began in 2020.\n

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Why protecting our Mindspa name mattered<\/h2>\n
\nFor companies, a brand represents the reputation, trust and relationships built with users.\n

\nWhen another business operating in the same market adopts an identical name, the consequences are practical. Customers can download the wrong app, contact the wrong support team, leave reviews for the wrong company or mistakenly associate one company's business practices with another. All things that actually occurred and have been documented by us.\n

\nThis was never simply about owning a word.\n

\nIt was about protecting the identity of the platform we created, the work of our team and the trust of the people who use Mindspa.\n

\nWe continued investing in the product throughout the dispute, expanding Mindspa's psychology courses, therapeutic tools, educational content and self-help resources while serving a growing international community. And we are soon launching even more products that we hope our users will find beneficial for their emotional wellbeing.\n

\nThe fact that the competing application has now abandoned the disputed brand finally removes one of the largest sources of confusion.\n

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Mindspa is Mindspa again.<\/h2>\n
\nFor our team, this is both a relief and a reminder of why protecting a brand matters.\n

\nAnd for our users, it should make one thing much simpler: when you search for Mindspa, there should no longer be any doubt about which Mindspa you are looking for.\n

\nThank you for always supporting and believing in us.\n

\nthe Mindspa team<\/i>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Mindspa users and friends. We have some pleasant news to share with you! If you have ever searched for us on the internet, you might have noticed other apps or services branding themselves as «Mindspa». Often times, these other apps and services preceeded us in search rankings, outspent us in marketing budget, and have… Leer m\u00e1s »After 6 years, Mindspa reclaims exclusive use of its name<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1016042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2910,883,2912,2911],"class_list":["post-1016037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mental-health","tag-brand","tag-mindspa","tag-mobile-app","tag-name"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindspa.me\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindspa.me\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindspa.me\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindspa.me\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindspa.me\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mindspa.me\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016045,"href":"https:\/\/mindspa.me\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016037\/revisions\/1016045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindspa.me\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1016042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindspa.me\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindspa.me\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindspa.me\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}