UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
SERIAL NO: 76/629519
APPLICANT: Vina Ventisquero Limitada
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CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS: |
RETURN ADDRESS: Commissioner for Trademarks P.O. Box 1451 Alexandria, VA 22313-1451
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MARK: RAMIRANA
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CORRESPONDENT’S REFERENCE/DOCKET NO: SYC-55-TM
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 e-mail address.
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Serial Number 76/629519
The assigned examining attorney has reviewed the referenced application and determined the following.
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.
Filing Basis
Applicant must advise the trademark-examining attorney whether applicant intends to rely solely on the foreign registration as the basis for registration. The foreign registration alone may serve as the basis for obtaining a U.S. registration resulting from this application.
Unless applicant indicates otherwise, this Office will presume that the applicant wishes to rely on both Section 1(b) and Section 44(e) as the bases for registration. In this case, although the application may be approved for publication, the mark will not register until an acceptable allegation of use has been filed.
The applicant must submit an English translation of the foreign registration signed by the translator. 37 C.F.R. §2.34(a)(3)(ii); TMEP §1004.01(b).
If literal portion of the mark has any significance other than trademark significance, the applicant must state the significance for the record.
If not, the applicant must state that there is no other known significance of RAMIRANA. The applicant may adopt the following format.
“The RAMIRANA portion of the mark has no known significance in the relevant trade, has no geographical significance and has no known meaning in any foreign language.”
Response Guidelines
No set form is required for response to this Office action. The applicant must respond to each point raised. The applicant should simply set forth the required changes or statements and request that the Office enter them. The applicant must sign the response.
/Toni Y. Hickey/
Trademark Examining Attorney
Law Office 115
(571) 272-9475 phone
(571) 273-9115 fax
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
FOR INQUIRIES OR QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS OFFICE ACTION, PLEASE CONTACT THE ASSIGNED EXAMINING ATTORNEY SPECIFIED ABOVE.