UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
SERIAL NO: 76/592730
APPLICANT: Guitar Center, Inc.
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CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS: ARONBERG GOLDGEHN DAVIS & GARMISA
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Commissioner for Trademarks P.O. Box 1451 Alexandria, VA 22313-1451
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MARK: ROAD RUNNER
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CORRESPONDENT’S REFERENCE/DOCKET NO: 28005.02201
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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 e-mail address.
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PRIORITY ACTION
RESPONSE TIME LIMIT: To avoid abandonment, the Office must receive a proper response to this Office action within six-months of the mailing or e-mailing date. If applicant responds to the issues below within two months of the above mailing or e-mailing date, this case will be given priority handling. TMEP §708.01.
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.
QUESTIONS: Please contact the assigned trademark examining attorney with any questions.
Serial Number 76/592730
The following were discussed in communication with Mary Vidal Hays on June 2, 2005. Applicant must respond to the requirement raised below.
The applicant will adopt the following identification and classification, if accurate:
Carrying bags, carrying cases and covers for deejay equipment namely audio, visual and special effects equipment, and sound reinforcement and recording equipment namely [specify type, e.g., tape] recorders, amplifiers, public address systems, digital sound boards for [specify use, e.g., use with public address systems], audio cords for [specify use, e.g., amplifiers], electronic effects pedals for use with sound amplifiers, signal processors, racks for [specify use, e.g., amplifiers, loudspeakers], stands for [specify use, e.g., microphones], microphones and peripherals, namely [specify common commercial name, e.g., headphones, loudspeakers] in International Class 9.
Carrying bags, carrying cases and covers for musical instruments namely, acoustic and electric stringed instruments, brass and woodwind instruments and all percussion instruments namely, drum kits, drum racks, and hand and ethnic percussion in International Class 16.
TMEP §1402.01.
Additions to Identification Not Permitted and Identification Manual
Please note that, while the identification of goods may be amended to clarify or limit the goods, adding to the goods or broadening the scope of the goods is not permitted. 37 C.F.R. §2.71(a); TMEP §1402.06. Therefore, applicant may not amend the identification to include goods that are not within the scope of the goods set forth in the present identification.
For assistance with identifying goods and/or services in trademark applications, please see the online searchable Manual of Acceptable Identifications of Goods and Services at http://tess2.gov.uspto.report/netahtml/tidm.html.
If applicant prosecutes this application as a combined, or multiple-class application, then applicant must comply with each of the following for those goods and/or services based on an intent to use the mark in commerce under Trademark Act Section 1(b):
(1) Applicant must list the goods and/or services by international class with the classes listed in ascending numerical order. TMEP § 1403.01; and
(2) Applicant must submit a filing fee for each international class of goods and/or services not covered by the fee already paid (current fee information should be confirmed at http://www.uspto.gov). 37 C.F.R. §2.86(a)(2); TMEP §§810 and 1403.01.
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.
/William T. Verhosek/
Examining Attorney
Law Office 114
571-272-9464
(fax) 571-273-9114
HOW TO RESPOND TO THIS OFFICE ACTION:
STATUS OF APPLICATION: To check the status of your application, visit the Office’s Trademark Applications and Registrations Retrieval (TARR) system at http://tarr.uspto.gov.
VIEW APPLICATION DOCUMENTS ONLINE: Documents in the electronic file for pending applications can be viewed and downloaded online at http://portal.gov.uspto.report/external/portal/tow.
GENERAL TRADEMARK INFORMATION: For general information about trademarks, please visit the Office’s website at http://www.gov.uspto.report/main/trademarks.htm