UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
SERIAL NO: 76/646148
APPLICANT: FSN Research, LLC
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CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS: |
RETURN ADDRESS: Commissioner for Trademarks P.O. Box 1451 Alexandria, VA 22313-1451
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MARK: PRO STACK
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CORRESPONDENT’S REFERENCE/DOCKET NO: N/A
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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MAILING/E-MAILING DATE INFORMATION: If the mailing or e-mailing date of this Office action does not appear above, this information can be obtained by visiting the USPTO website at http://tarr.gov.uspto.report/, inserting the application serial number, and viewing the prosecution history for the mailing date of the most recently issued Office communication.
Serial Number 76/646148
The assigned examining attorney has reviewed the referenced application and determined the following.
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 following informalities, however, must be addressed.
Applicant must specify the date the application declaration was signed. TMEP §804.01(b).
The identification of goods is unacceptable because it may include goods that fall under more than one International Class. The applicant must clarify the identification of goods by specifying the goods by their common commercial names. TMEP §1402.01.
The applicant may adopt the following identification format, if accurate:
Construction material, namely, (specify goods by their common commercial names, e.g., metal expansion joints for floors and walls in International Class 006; concrete blocks in International Class 19; etc.)
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.
Please note that, while an application may be amended to clarify or limit the identification, additions to the identification are not permitted. 37 C.F.R. §2.71(a); TMEP §1402.06. Therefore, the applicant may not amend to include any goods that are not within the scope of goods set forth in the present identification.
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. 37 C.F.R. §2.86(a)(2); TMEP §§810.01 and 1403.01.
The applicant must state whether the term, “STACK,” has any meaning or significance in relation to the goods other than trademark significance. Please note, that if the term has meaning or significance in relation to the goods, the examining attorney may require a disclaimer of the descriptive term apart from the mark as shown.
Applicant must submit the following standard character claim: “The mark consists of standard characters without claim to any particular font, style, size, or color.” 37 C.F.R. §2.52(a); TMEP §807.03(a).
If the applicant has any questions or needs assistance in responding to this Office action, please telephone the assigned examining attorney.
/Asmat Khan/
Asmat Khan
Trademark Attorney
Law Office 114
(571) 272-9453
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.