UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
|
SERIAL NO: 76/492543
APPLICANT: Arena Football League LLC
|
|
|
CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS: SCOTT A. ANDRESEN ARENA FOOTBALL LEAGUE LLC 20 N WACKER DR STE 1231 CHICAGO IL 60606-2901
|
RETURN ADDRESS: Commissioner for Trademarks 2900 Crystal Drive Arlington, VA 22202-3514 ecom110@uspto.gov
If no fees are enclosed, the address should include the words "Box Responses - No Fee." |
|
MARK: NEW ORLEANS VOODOO
|
|
|
CORRESPONDENT’S REFERENCE/DOCKET NO: ARNA-250
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 email address.
|
Serial Number 76/492543
In accordance with the authorization granted by Scott Andresen on August 5, 2003, the application has been AMENDED as indicated below. Please note that if the identification of goods or services has been amended below, any future amendments must be in accordance with 37 C.F.R. 2.71(a); TMEP section 1402.07(e). No response is necessary unless there is an objection to the amendment. If there is an objection to the amendment, the applicant should notify the examining attorney immediately.
The examining attorney has searched the Office records and has found no similar registered or pending mark which would bar registration under Trademark Act Section 2(d), 15 U.S.C. §1052(d). TMEP §704.02.
The applicant’s claim of ownership of Application Serial Nos. 76427033, 76427032, and 78350619 will not be printed on any registration which may issue from this application. If the claimed pending applications mature into registrations before this application, the applicant may then claim ownership by registration numbers. 37 C.F.R. §2.36; TMEP §812.
REVISED DISCLAIMER
All disclaimers are deleted in their entirety and replaced with the following:
No claim is made to the exclusive right to use NEW ORLEANS apart from the mark as shown.
The identification of goods in Class 16 “containing information about Applicant” has been amended to: “containing information about football.”
The identification of goods in Class 16 “posters sold in relation to a professional sports team” is deleted.
FYI ONLY - 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.
The examining attorney can be contacting at the following telephone numbers and fax numbers:
Home Office Phone Number (Monday – Friday): 410-867-9170 (If the examining attorney does not answer, the telephone will ring back to a voice mail system. Voice mail messages are normally checked three times daily.)
DIRECT FAX: 703-746-6125
EMAIL ADDRESS: amy.hella@uspto.gov
NOTE TO APPLICANTS: The examining attorney’s email address should be used for informal questions and comments ONLY. The email address ecom110@uspto.gov is used for formal responses to Office Actions ONLY. DO NOT send questions or comments to the ecom110@uspto.gov email address.
/Amy E. Hella/
Trademark Examining Attorney
Law Office 110
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office