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EXCELERATOR

Bridger Commercial Funding LLC

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

 

    SERIAL NO: 76/464111

 

    APPLICANT:                          Bridger Commercial Funding LLC

 

 

        

 

    CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS:

    PATRICK C. WOOLLEY, ESQ.

    POLSINELLI, SHALTON, WELTE

    700 W 47TH ST STE 1000

    KANSAS CITY MO 64112-1805

   

RETURN ADDRESS: 

Commissioner for Trademarks

2900 Crystal Drive

Arlington, VA 22202-3514

ecom108@uspto.gov

 

 

 

    MARK:          EXCELERATOR

 

 

 

    CORRESPONDENT’S REFERENCE/DOCKET NO:   61199

 

    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  76/464111

 

The assigned examining attorney has reviewed the referenced application and determined the following.

 

REFUSAL BECAUSE A SEARCH OF THE OFFICE RECORDS REVEALED  CONFUSINGLY SIMILAR REGISTERED MARKS

 

The examining attorney refuses registration under Trademark Act Section 2(d), 15 U.S.C. Section 1052(d), because the applicant's mark, when used on or in connection with the identified goods, so resembles the mark in U.S. Registration Nos. 2,543,897; 2,501,435; and 2,495,517 as to be likely to cause confusion, to cause mistake, or to deceive.  TMEP section 1207.  See the enclosed registration.

 

The Court in In re E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., 476 F.2d 1357, 177 USPQ 563 (CCPA 1973), listed the principal factors to be considered in determining whether there is a likelihood of confusion under Section 2(d).  Any one of the factors listed may be dominant in any given case, depending upon the evidence of record.  In this case, the following factors are the most relevant:  similarity of the marks, similarity of the goods, and similarity of trade channels of the goods.

 

Applicant’s mark, EXCELERATOR, is confusingly similar to registrant’s marks, SALES EXCELERATOR, MEDIA SALES EXCELERATOR and MEDIA SALES EXCELERATOR.  They share the salient feature EXCELERATOR.  Applicant’ s goods, computer software for enabling the transfer of data over networks, including the Internet, between computer databases and computer programs, are closely related to registrant’s goods, computer software to facilitate the exchange of data. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/Robert Clark/

Trademark Attorney

Law Office 108

703-308-9108 est. 162

Fax: 703-703-746-8108

 

 

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.

 

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