UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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SERIAL NO: 76/608602
APPLICANT: Muncie Power Products, Inc.
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CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS: HALL, MYERS, VANDE SANDE & PEQUIGNOT
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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: M-POWER
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CORRESPONDENT’S REFERENCE/DOCKET NO: 2152.1220
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.
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In accordance with the authorization granted by Geoffrey R. Myers on April 5, 2005, 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 recitation of services is amended to read as follows:
Customer assistance in the selection of truck mounted auxiliary power components for specific commercial trucks through the use of a software program, in International Class 035.
TMEP §1402.11.
The application is amended to classify the goods and/or services in International Class 035. 37 C.F.R. §2.85; TMEP §§1401.03(b) and 1402.11.
The applicant has clarified that the mark should be in standard character format. The following standard character drawing claim is added to the record:
The mark is presented in standard characters without claim to any particular font style, size, or color.
37 C.F.R. §2.52(a).
The application will now proceed to publication.
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.
/Katrina Edge/
Examining Attorney
Law Office 111
Ph: (571) 272-5886
Fax: (571) 271-9111