UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE (USPTO)

OFFICE ACTION (OFFICIAL LETTER) ABOUT REGISTRANT’S TRADEMARK REGISTRATION

 

 

 

CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO RESPOND TO THIS LETTER:

 

http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/teas/reg_maintain.jsp

 

 

 POST REGISTRATION OFFICE ACTION

 

 

ISSUE/MAILING DATE: 1/31/2014

U.S. Registration Number  3426480

 

Upon further review, The Section 7 Amendment submitted on November 19, 2013 is not accepted for the reasons set forth below.

 

DRAWING REQUIREMENT

 

The owner must submit a new drawing with “the federal registration notice ®” deleted because it is not part of the mark.  cf. TMEP §§807.02 and 807.14(a).

TMEP 807.02 Drawing Must Be Limited to Mark

The drawing allows the Office to properly code and index the mark for search purposes, indicates what the mark is, and provides a means for reproducing the mark in the Official Gazette and on the certificate of registration. Therefore, matter that appears on the specimen that is not part of the mark should not be placed on the drawing. Purely informational matter such as net weight, contents, or business addresses are generally not considered part of the mark.

Quotation marks and hyphens should not be included in the mark on a drawing, unless they are a part of the mark. See TMEP §807.12(a). The drawing should not include extraneous matter such as the letters “TM,” “SM,” the copyright notice ©, or the federal registration notice ®. See TMEP §§906 et seq. regarding use of the federal registration notice.

See TMEP §807.14(a) regarding requirements for removal of matter from the drawing.

 

RESPONSE DEADLINE

 

The owner has six months from the issuance date of this letter to respond to all the issues raised in this letter.  In order to expedite the processing of your Section 7 Amendment, the early submission of a response to this letter is encouraged.  If a complete response is not received in the Office within this time period, then the Section 7 Amendment will be considered abandoned.  37 C.F.R. §2.176.  The fee for filing the Section 7 Amendment will not be refunded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

/Territa E. Gray/

Trademark Specialist

Post Registration Division

571.272.9527 Office

571.273.9527 Fax

Territa.Gray@uspto.gov

 

 

 

 

 

TO RESPOND TO THIS LETTER:  Use the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) Response to Post-Registration Office action form number 11 at http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/teas/reg_maintain.jsp.  Please wait 48-72 hours from the issue/mailing date before using TEAS, to allow for necessary system updates of the registration.  For technical assistance with online forms, e-mail TEAS@uspto.gov.

 

WHO MUST SIGN THE RESPONSE:  It must be personally signed by (1) the individual owner; (2) someone with legal authority to bind the owner (e.g., a corporate officer or general partner); or (3) an authorized attorney, if one is appointed to represent the owner.  If the owner is represented by an attorney, the attorney must sign the response.

 

CHECK THE STATUS OF THE REGISTRATION:  To check the status of your registration at any time, visit the Office’s Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) system at http://tsdr.uspto.gov/.  Please keep a copy of the complete status screen.  For more information on checking status, see http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/process/status/.

 

TO UPDATE CORRESPONDENCE/E-MAIL ADDRESS:  Use the TEAS form at http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/teas/correspondence.jsp.

 

FOR INQUIRIES OR QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS OFFICE ACTION, PLEASE CONTACT THE ASSIGNED SPECIALIST.