UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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SERIAL NO: 76/542595
APPLICANT: Weider Nutrition International, Inc.
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CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS: 201 SOUTH MAIN STREET, SUITE 1800
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Commissioner for Trademarks P.O. Box 1451 Alexandria, VA 22313-1451
If no fees are enclosed, the address should include the words "Box Responses - No Fee." |
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MARK: KULA
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CORRESPONDENT’S REFERENCE/DOCKET NO: 5028 TM
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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.
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Serial Number 76/542595
OFFICE RECORDS SEARCH: The Office records have been searched and no similar registered or pending mark has been found that would bar registration under Trademark Act Section 2(d), 15 U.S.C. §1052(d). TMEP §704.02.
ADVISORY – AMENDMENTS TO GOODS/SERVICES: If the goods and/or services have been amended below, any future amendments must be in accordance with 37 C.F.R. §2.71(a) and TMEP §1402.07(e).
AMENDMENT(S) AUTHORIZED: As authorized by Preston C. Reghr on May 12,2005, the application is amended as noted below. If applicant disagrees with or objects to any of the amendments below, please notify the undersigned trademark examining attorney immediately. Otherwise, no response is necessary. TMEP §707.
The identification of goods is amended to read as follows:
Ready to eat chocolate food bars in international class 30.
Food bars made primarily of peanuts are classified in international class 29. The applicant has elected to limit the goods to foods in class 30, for this application.
Effective January 31, 2005 and pursuant to the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005, Pub. L. 108-447, the following are the fees that will be charged for filing a trademark application:
(1) $325 per international class if filed electronically using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS); or
(2) $375 per international class if filed on paper.
These fees will be charged not only when a new application is filed, but also when payments are made to add classes to an existing application. If such payments are submitted with a TEAS response, the fee will be $325 per class, and if such payments are made with a paper response, the fee will be $375 per class.
The new fee requirements will apply to any fees filed on or after January 31, 2005.
NOTICE: TRADEMARK OPERATION RELOCATION
The Trademark Operation has relocated to Alexandria, Virginia. 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, attorneys and other Trademark customers are strongly encouraged to correspond with the USPTO online via the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), at http://www.gov.uspto.report/teas/index.html.
Henry S. Zak
/Henry S. Zak/
Examining Attorney
Law Office 108
(571) 272-9354