Offc Action Outgoing

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PAYMENTECH, LLC

Offc Action Outgoing

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

SERIAL NO: 76/082510

APPLICANT: PAYMENTECH, L.P.

CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS:

SHERRESE SMITH

ARNOLD & PORTER

555 12TH ST NW

WASHINGTON DC 20004

RETURN ADDRESS:

Commissioner for Trademarks

2900 Crystal Drive

Arlington, VA 22202-3514

ecom110@uspto.gov

MARK: SITENET

CORRESPONDENT’S REFERENCE/DOCKET NO: 14194.006

CORRESPONDENT EMAIL ADDRESS:

Please provide in all correspondence:

1. Filing date, serial number, mark and

applicant's name.

2. Date of this Office Action.

3. Examining Attorney's name and

Law Office number.

4. Your telephone number and e-mail address.

OFFICE ACTION

TO AVOID ABANDONMENT, WE MUST RECEIVE A PROPER RESPONSE TO THIS OFFICE ACTION WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF OUR MAILING OR E-MAILING DATE.

Serial Number 76/082510

The Office has reassigned this application to the undersigned examining attorney, who has reviewed the statement of use filed on February 28, 2003, and has determined the following.

Names of General Partners Required

The applicant must specify the names and the national citizenship or the state or country of organization or incorporation of each of the general partners of Paymentech, L.P. 37 C.F.R. §2.32(a)(3)(iii); TMEP §§803.03(b) and 803.04.

/LGKovalsky/

Laura Gorman Kovalsky

Trademark Attorney

703/308-9110, x147 (PLEASE NOTE:

I am currently working part-time.

Therefore, a written response is encouraged.)

ecom110@uspto.gov

(for FORMAL responses only)

laura.kovalsky@uspto.gov

(for INFORMAL responses only)

The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued the Third Edition of the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (TMEP), January, 2002, available at www.gov.uspto.report/go/tmep. References to the TMEP correspond to the Third Edition.

CHANGE OF CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS

Applicants may now file changes of correspondence address via a new form on TEAS. Address changes may be performed on up to 20 cases at a time. The Trademark Office strongly encourages applicants to use this time-saving form which is available online at:

<http://eteas.gov.uspto.report/V2.0/ca200/WIZARD.htm>

FEE INCREASE EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2003

Effective January 1, 2003, the fee for filing an application for trademark registration will be increased to $335.00 per International Class. The USPTO will not accord a filing date to applications that are filed on or after that date that are not accompanied by a minimum of $335.00.

Additionally, the fee for amending an existing application to add an additional class or classes of goods/services will be $335.00 per class for classes added on or after January 1, 2003.

How to respond to this Office Action:

To respond formally using the Office’s Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), visit http://www.gov.uspto.report/teas/index.html and follow the instructions.

To respond formally via E-mail, visit http://www.gov.uspto.report/web/trademarks/tmelecresp.htm and follow the instructions.

To respond formally via regular mail, your response should be sent to the mailing Return Address listed above and include the serial number, law office and examining attorney’s name on the upper right corner of each page of your response.

To check the status of your application at any time, visit the Office’s Trademark Applications and Registrations Retrieval (TARR) system at http://tarr.gov.uspto.report/

For general and other useful information about trademarks, you are encouraged to visit the Office’s web site at http://www.gov.uspto.report/main/trademarks.htm

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