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  76/532723

 

This letter responds to the applicant's communication filed on July 22, 2004.  The foreign registration certificate is acceptable.  The following requirement is made FINAL.

 

Identification of Goods Amendment Requirement Made FINAL

 

The requirement for submission of an acceptable identification of goods is maintained and made FINAL.  The identification as amended contains indefinite terms which could be classified in more than one class.  The applicant must amend the identification to either delete the indefinite terms or identify them by common commercial names.  The applicant may adopt the following identification, if accurate:

 

Class 6:  Metal pipe couplings and pipe nozzles, and manually operated metal http://atlas.uspto.gov./netacgi/ - h0http://atlas.uspto.gov./netacgi/ - h2valves, for fluids or air flowing through pipe sleeves and couplings. 

 

Class 7:  Nozzles for paint spraying machines; spray guns for paint, and accessories therefor, namely, pressure reducers, spray coating nozzles, and nozzle filters.

 

Class 9:  Automatic valves for fluids or air flowing through sleeves and couplers. 

Multiple Class Requirements

 

If the applicant prosecutes this application as a combined or multiple‑class application covering more than two classes, the applicant must comply with each of the following.

 

(1)  The applicant must list the goods by international class with the classes listed in ascending numerical order.  TMEP §1403.01.

 

(2)       As the filing fee submitted with the application covered four classes, no additional fee

is required for International Class 9.  

 

Contact Information

 

My Law Office will move on  November 1, 2004.  To reach me by phone after that date call (571) 272-9165.  To submit a fax response to this Office action after that date, send your response to the Law Office fax number, namely (571) 273-9106.

 

NOTICE:  TRADEMARK OPERATION RELOCATING OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER  2004

 

The Trademark Operation is relocating to Alexandria, Virginia, in October and November 2004.  Effective October 4, 2004, all Trademark-related paper mail (except documents sent to the Assignment Services Division for recordation, certain documents filed under the Madrid Protocol, and requests for copies of trademark documents) must be sent to:

 

Commissioner for Trademarks

P.O. Box 1451

Alexandria, VA  22313-1451

 

Applicants, registration owners, attorneys and other Trademark customers are strongly encouraged to correspond with the USPTO online via the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), at www.uspto.gov.

 

 

 

/Barbara A. Gold/

Examining Attorney

Law Office 106

703/ 308-9106 (140)

barbara.gold@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 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.