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United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Office Action (Official Letter) About Owner’s Trademark Registration

OFFICE ACTION

The USPTO must receive the owner’s response to this letter within the time period specified below.  Respond using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS).  A link to the appropriate TEAS response form appears below.

Issue date:  June 17, 2020

The Section 7 Amendment submitted on 4/2/2019 is not accepted for the reasons set forth below.

The owner must submit a color claim and a separate description of where the colors appear in the mark that reflect the amended color mark.  The following format is suggested:  (1) “the color(s)  Blue and white is/are claimed as a feature of the mark;” and (2) “the color(s)  appear in specify portion of the mark on which color(s) appear.”  37 C.F.R. §2.52(b)(1).  Common color names should be used to describe the colors in the mark, e.g., red, yellow, blue.  TMEP §§807.07 et seq.

To verify the contents of the Section 7 Amendment, as well as any submitted corrections or further amendments, the owner may submit the following statement and declaration under 37 C.F.R. §2.20, properly signed and dated:

The undersigned, being hereby warned that willful false statements and the like so made are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, under 18 U.S.C. §1001, and that such willful false statement may jeopardize the validity of this document, declares that s/he is properly authorized to execute this document on behalf of the owner, and all statements made of his/her own knowledge are true and that all statements made on information and belief are believed to be true.

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Signature of Authorized Person

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Type or Print Name

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Date

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.

How to respond.  Click to file a Response to Post-Registration Office action. 

Direct questions about this Office action to the Post Registration staff member below.

/Roberts, Sharon/

Trademark Specialist

Office of Post Registration

571-272-9549 (Office)

Sharon.Roberts@uspto.gov

RESPONSE GUIDANCE

• Response must be received by the USPTO before midnight Eastern Time of the last day of the response period.  TEAS maintenance or unforeseen circumstances could affect an owner’s ability to timely respond.  

• Responses signed by an unauthorized party are not accepted or processed.  If the owner does not have an attorney, the response must be signed by the individual owner, all joint owners, or someone with legal authority to bind a juristic owner.  If the owner has an attorney, the response must be signed by the attorney.

• If needed, find contact information for the supervisor of the office or unit listed in the signature block.