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UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE (USPTO)

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

CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO RESPOND TO THIS LETTER AND SELECT FORM NUMBER 11:

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

POST REGISTRATION OFFICE ACTION

ISSUE/MAILING DATE: 2/7/2019

U.S. Registration Number  1592917

The Section 7 Amendment submitted on December 26, 2018 is not accepted for the reasons set forth below.

FEE

The owner must submit the filing fee for the Section 7 Amendment.  15 U.S.C. §1057(e); 37 C.F.R. §§2.6, 2.173(b)(1); TMEP §1609.01(b).  The fee for filing a Section 7 Amendment is $100 for filings submitted online using the Trademark Electronic Application System (“TEAS”) and $200 for filings submitted on paper.  37 C.F.R. §2.6.  The required fee was not submitted.

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.

/Dana L. Newton/

Trademark Specialist

Post Registration Division

571-272-9544

571-273-9544 – fax

Dana.Newton@uspto.gov

USPTO

TO RESPOND TO THIS LETTER:  Use the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) Response to Post-Registration Office action form number 11 at http://www.gov.uspto.report/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. For questions about the Office action itself, please contact the assigned specialist.  E-mail communications will not be accepted as responses to Office actions; therefore, do not respond to this Office action by e-mail.

All informal e-mail communications relevant to this registration will be placed in the official registration record.

WHO MUST SIGN THE RESPONSE:  It must be personally signed by an individual owner or someone with legal authority to bind an owner (i.e., a corporate officer, a general partner, all joint owners). If an 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.gov.uspto.report/. Please keep a copy of the TSDR status screen.  For more information on checking status, see http://www.gov.uspto.report/trademarks/process/status/.

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