Priority Action

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

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  76/651775

 

The following were discussed in communication with Steven M. Rabin on June 9, 2006.  Applicant must respond to each refusal and/or requirement raised below.

 

 

 

Identification of Goods:

The wording “computer mainframes, disk drives, network interface cards and personal computer panels” in the identification of goods needs clarification because the wording is indefinite.  TMEP §1402.01. 

 

The applicant may adopt and clarify the following:

 

Class 9:

 

Photocopying machines,

 

Computers,

 

Computer mainframes, namely, (list the common commercial name of the goods),

 

Computer mouse,

 

Central processing units,

 

Computer, digital, floppy and optical disk drives,

 

Televisions,

 

Interface cards for data processing equipment in the form of printed circuits,

 

Printed circuit boards,

 

Blank floppy computer disks,

 

Computer cursor control devices, namely, light pens,

 

Computer printers,

 

Floppy disk drives,

 

Personal computer panels, namely, (list the common commercial name of the goods),

 

Notebook computers,

 

Computer monitors,

 

Compact disk drives,

 

Computer hard disk drives,

 

Computer keyboards.

 

Additions Not Allowed:

 

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.

 

Information Requirement:

 

Applicant must specify whether the mark has any significance in the field or trade or industry, any geographical significance, or any meaning in a foreign language.  37 C.F.R. §2.61(b).

 

Questions:

If applicant has questions about its application or needs assistance in responding to this Office action, please telephone the assigned trademark examining attorney directly at the number below.

/Lourdes D. Ayala/

Examining Attorney

Law Office 106

(571) 272- 9316

Fax: (571) 273-9106

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOW TO RESPOND TO THIS OFFICE ACTION:

·            ONLINE RESPONSE:  You may respond using the Office’s Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) Response to Office action form available on our website at http://www.gov.uspto.report/teas/index.html.  If the Office action issued via e-mail, you must wait 72 hours after receipt of the Office action to respond via TEAS.  NOTE:  Do not respond by e-mail.  THE USPTO WILL NOT ACCEPT AN E-MAILED RESPONSE.

·            REGULAR MAIL RESPONSE:  To respond by regular mail, your response should be sent to the mailing return address above, and include the serial number, law office number, and examining attorney’s name.  NOTE:  The filing date of the response will be the date of receipt in the Office, not the postmarked date.  To ensure your response is timely, use a certificate of mailing.  37 C.F.R. §2.197.

 

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