Offc Action Outgoing

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

 

 

 

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  76/500769

 

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

 

Search Results

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.

 

Identification of Goods

The identification of goods is unacceptable as indefinite because “graphics” and “methods” are not goods.  Nor is the difference between “body exercise” and “exercise” understood. Amendment is required. The applicant may adopt one of the following identifications, if accurate (or neither if inaccurate):  COMPUTER GRAPHICS SOFTWARE FOR USE IN DEPICTING BODY EXERCISE.; PRE-RECORDED CD’S FEATURING GRAPHICS DEPICTING BODY EXERCISE.   TMEP §1402.01. 

 

 

 

 

Please note that, while an application may be amended to clarify or limit the identification, additions to the identification are not permitted.  37 C.F.R. §2.71(a); TMEP §1402.06.  Therefore, the applicant may not amend to include any goods that are not within the scope of the goods recited in the present identification.

 

Significance of Mark

The applicant must indicate whether “MASS” has any significance in regard to graphics or is an acronym (and if so, for what).  37 C.F.R. §2.61(b).

 

 

 

 

 

/Steven Fine/

Examining Attorney

Law Office 110

(703) 308-9110 ext. 124

(703) 746-8100 (fax)

ecom110@uspto.gov

 

 

 

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.