PR-Section 8 and 9

Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number. PTO Form 1963 (Rev 05/2006)

OMB No. 0651-0055 (Exp 07/31/2018)

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Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number. PTO Form 1963 (Rev 05/2006)

OMB No. 0651-0055 (Exp 07/31/2018)

Combined Declaration of Use and/or Excusable Nonuse/Application for Renewal of Registration of a Mark under Sections 8 & 9

To the Commissioner for Trademarks:

REGISTRATION NUMBER: 2093197
REGISTRATION DATE: 09/02/1997

MARK: NATURE'S SPECIALTIES

The owner, MEEKS, MARY GROSSMAN, a citizen of United States, having an address of
      P.O. Box 548
      CORONA, California 92878
      United States
is filing a Combined Declaration of Use and/or Excusable Nonuse/Application for Renewal of Registration of a Mark under Sections 8 & 9.

For International Class 005, the mark is in use in commerce on or in connection with all goods/services, or to indicate membership in the collective membership organization, listed in the existing registration for this specific class: therapeutic pet care preparations, namely, shampoos, conditioners, creams, flea powders, anti-itch spray, and detanglers, all for treating conditions of the skin and coat ; or, the owner is making the listed excusable nonuse claim.

The owner is submitting one(or more) specimen(s) showing the mark as used in commerce on or in connection with any item in this class, consisting of a(n) Image of mark in use on product label.
Specimen File1
The registrant's current Attorney Information: Linda H. Liu of  Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear LLP
      2040 Main Street, 14th Floor
      Irvine, California 92614
      United States
The phone number is 949-760-0404.
The fax number is 951-781-4507.
The email address is efiling@kmob.com. (authorized)
The docket/reference number is NATSPEC.042T.

The registrant's proposed Attorney Information: Linda H. Liu of  Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear LLP
      2040 Main Street, 14th Floor
      Irvine, California 92614
      United States The docket/reference number is NATSPEC.042T.
The Other Appointed Attorney(s): William B. Bunker, Arthur S. Rose, Drew S. Hamilton, John B. Sganga, Jr., Edward A. Schlatter, Gerard von Hoffmann, Joseph R. Re, Catherine J. Holland, John M. Carson, Karen Vogel Weil, Andrew H. Simpson, Jeffrey L. Van Hoosear, Daniel E. Altman, Lynda J. Zadra-Symes, William H. Shreve, Stephen C. Jensen, Steven J. Nataupsky, Paul A. Stewart, Joseph F. Jennings, Craig S. Summers, Brenton R. Babcock, Michael H. Trenholm, Diane M. Reed, Ronald J. Schoenbaum, John R. King, Frederick S. Berretta, Adeel S. Akhtar, Thomas R. Arno, David N. Weiss, Douglas G. Muehlhauser, Lori Lee Yamato, Michael K. Friedland, Stacey R. Halpern, Mark M. Abumeri, Jon W. Gurka, John W. Holcomb, Joseph M. Reisman, Michael L. Fuller, Mark R. Benedict, Paul N. Conover, Robert J. Roby, Sabing H. Lee, Karoline A. Delaney, Joseph S. Cianfrani, William R. Zimmerman, Paul C. Steinhardt, Eric S. Furman, Susan M. Natland, Rose M. Thiessen, Michael A. Guiliana, Rabinder N. Narula, Bruce S. Itchkawitz, John M. Grover, Irfan A. Lateef, Amy Christensen Chun, Mark J. Gallagher, David G. Jankowski, Brian C. Horne, Payson LeMeilleur, Sheila N. Swaroop, Benjamin A. Katzenellenbogen, Andrew N. Merickel, Thomas P. Krzeminski, Michael S. Okamoto, Linda H. Liu, James F. Herkenhoff, Andrew M. Douglas, Salima A. Merani, Jonathan A. Hyman, Curtiss C. Dosier, Joseph J. Mallon, Sean M. Murray, Christy G. Lea, Perry D. Oldham, Russell M. Jeide, Zi Y. Wong, Matthew S. Bellinger, Mincheol Kim, Gregory A. Hermanson, Lauren Keller Katzenellenbogen, Ted M. Cannon, Carol Pitzel Cruz, Josué A. Villalta, Andrew I. Kimmel, Brenden Gingrich, Boris Zelkind, Maria Culic Anderson, Melanie J. Seelig, Mauricio A. Uribe, Curtis R. Huffmire, Christopher L. Ross, Eli A. Loots, Ryan E. Melnick, Yanna S. Bouris, Philip M. Nelson, Marko R. Zoretic, Kerry S. Taylor, Derek C. Dailey, Christopher T. Sweeney, Jarom D. Kesler, Steven P. Ruden, Colin B. Heideman, Theodore G. Papagiannis, Nicholas M. Zovko, Adam J. Gilbert, Kimberly J. Miller, Bryan W. Wahl, Thomas Y. Yee, Michelle E. Armond, Agnes Juang, Jason J. Jardine, Jared C. Bunker, Lance D. Smemoe, Joshua J. Stowell, Scott Raevsky, Jonathan E. Bachand, Ali S. Razai, Terry K. Tullis, Derek R. Bayles, Cheryl T. Burgess, Gregory B. Phillips, Brian C. Claassen, Mark Lezama, Sean Ambrosius, Stephen W. Larson, Travis J. Hill, John L. Paik, Bridget O'L. Smith, Michael R. Christensen, Benjamin J. Everton, Jason A. Gersting, Baraa Kahf, Alan G. Laquer, Jing Liu, Vlad Teplitskiy, Jeffery L. Hallstrom, Maria V. Stout, William O. Adams, Ian W. Gillies, Andrew W. Lloyd, Mark D. Kachner, Lincoln S. Essig, David R. Trossen, Aaron M. Davis, Jason R. Swartz, Benjamin B. Anger, Jason A. Champion, Daniel V. Gibson, Jeremy J. Carney, Karen M. Cassidy, Adam B. Powell, Christopher M. DiLeo, Karen J. Lenker, Bryan G. McWhorter, Nathanael R. Luman, Andrea L. Cheek, Deborah S. Shepherd, Alejandro D. Muñoz, Mark D. Marsden, Nora A. Marachelian, Joan Y. Chan, Allyson G. Brown, Damien J. Howard, Jane Q. Dai, Benjamin P. Johnson, Shannon Lam, Peter Law, Mark Metzke, Scott G. Siera, Vikas Bhargava, Daniel J. Fischer, Jacob Peterson, Christie R.W. Matthaei, Vladimir S. Lozan, Paul S. Stellman, Lauren E. Hockett, Jeremy A. Anapol, Heungsoo Choi, Scott A. Cromar, David M. Dremann, Samantha Y. Hsu, Kendall M. Loebbaka, David R. Schmidt, Harnik Shukla, Omar K. Al-Mesned, Charlene A. Azema, Morgan R. Coates, Loni L. Morrow, Nathan M. Shaw, Kyu S. Min, Jane Xia, Chang Sik Lim, Jessica L. Achtsam, Thomas S.H. Cowan, Nicole Rossi Townes, Caleb A. Bates, Devanie A. DuFour, Cameron Jahansouz, Alexander J. Martinez, Hans L. Mayer, Jessica C. Sganga, Mark A. Speegle, Nicholas A. Belair, Ryan S. Furtado, Jonathan A. Menkes, Angela K. Dremann, Justin J. Gillett, M. Scott Forbes, Mark W. Catanese, Brian M. Graham, Brian J. Flynn, Catherine R. Gourash, Mitchell B. Hadley, Qi Peter Tong, Elenore Niu, Andrew D. Lee, Michael P. Burns, Stephanie M. Johnson, Neil G. Anderson, Joshua D. Berk, Paul Chang, David M. Cohen, Mark E. Davis, Michael R. Garcia, Jordan E. Gottdank, Alison M. Hill, Kim A. Kennedy, Daniel C. Kiang, Keith M. Lim, Ashley C. Morales, Nathan D. Reeves, Scott R. Seeley, Julianna M. Simon, Brandon G. Smith, C. Dylan Turner, Diana E. Wade, Xiaoyan Sabrina Wang, April K. White, Linjun Xu, Daniel K. Yarbrough, Zach Jun Hyuk Hong, Jordan M. Cox, Rick Park, Albert J. Sueiras, Mark Rubinshtein, Marc Chatenay-Lapointe, Casey D. Donahoe, Jonathan B. Fitzgerald, David J. Grant, Clayton R. Henson, Daniel A. Kamkar, Alexander Kappner, Lesley Y. Kim, Nathan J. Lee, Josepher Li, Vicki Y. Nee, Jacob R. Rosenbaum, James F. Smith, Douglas Wentzel, Rebecca L. Wright, David T. Kim, and Thomas E. Woodland.

The phone number is 949-760-0404.
The fax number is 949-760-9502.
The email address is efiling@knobbe.com. (authorized)
The registrant's current Correspondence Information: Linda H. Liu of  Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear LLP
      2040 Main Street, 14th Floor
      Irvine, California 92614
      United States
The phone number is 949-760-0404.
The fax number is 951-781-4507.
The email address is efiling@kmob.com. (authorized)
The docket/reference number is NATSPEC.042T.

The registrant's proposed Correspondence Information: Linda H. Liu of  Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear LLP
      2040 Main Street, 14th Floor
      Irvine, California 92614
      United States The docket/reference number is NATSPEC.042T.

The phone number is 949-760-0404.
The fax number is 949-760-9502.
The email address is efiling@knobbe.com. (authorized)

A fee payment in the amount of $425 will be submitted with the form, representing payment for 1 class(es), plus any additional grace period fee, if necessary.


Declaration

	Unless the owner has specifically claimed excusable nonuse, the mark is in use in commerce on or in connection with the goods/services or to indicate membership in the collective membership organization identified above, as evidenced by the attached specimen(s).
	Unless the owner has specifically claimed excusable nonuse, the specimen(s) shows the mark as currently used in commerce on or in connection with the goods/services/collective membership organization.
	The registrant requests that the registration be renewed for the goods/services/collective organization identified above.
	To the best of the signatory's knowledge, information, and belief, formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances, the allegations and other factual contentions made above have evidentiary support.
	The signatory being warned that willful false statements and the like are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, and that such willful false statements and the like may jeopardize the validity of this submission and the registration, declares that all statements made of his/her own knowledge are true and all statements made on information and belief are believed to be true.

Signature: /Linda H. Liu/    Date: 08/30/2017
Signatory's Name: Linda H. Liu
Signatory's Position: Attorney of Record, California Bar Member
Signatory's Phone: 949-760-0404

Mailing Address (current):
   Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear LLP
   2040 Main Street, 14th Floor
   Irvine, California 92614

Mailing Address (proposed):
   Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear LLP
   2040 Main Street, 14th Floor
   Irvine, California 92614

Serial Number: 75171366
Internet Transmission Date: Thu Aug 31 12:53:13 EDT 2017
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