To: | DUPONT POLYMERS, INC. (dupont.trademarks@dupont.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Registration No. 3673721 - DUPONT - N/A |
Sent: | 10/04/19 07:51:12 AM |
Sent As: | prg@uspto.gov |
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United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Office Action (Official Letter) About Owner’s Trademark Registration
U.S. Registration No. 3673721
Mark: DUPONT
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Correspondence Address: |
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Owner: DUPONT POLYMERS, INC.
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Reference/Docket No. N/A
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The USPTO must receive the owner’s response to this letter within the time period specified below. Respond using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS). A link to the appropriate TEAS response form appears below.
Issue date: October 4, 2019
The Combined Section 8 Affidavit & Section 9 Renewal Application submitted on August 26, 2019, cannot be accepted for the reasons set forth below.
I. ATTORNEY BAR INFORMATION IS REQUIRED
To provide bar information. The owner’s/holder’s primary attorney of record should provide his or her bar information by using the Revocation of Attorney and/or Appointment of Attorney/Domestic Representative form. The newly appointed attorney must submit a TEAS Response to Office Action for Post-Registration Matters form indicating that the attorney appointment form has been submitted and address all other refusals or requirements in this action, if any. Bar information provided in any other area of the form will be viewable by the public in USPTO records.
II. ATTORNEY STATEMENT IS REQUIRED
III. SIGNATURE ON RESPONSE - ADVISORY
The only attorneys who can practice before the USPTO in trademark matters are (1) attorneys in good standing with a bar of the highest court of any U.S. state (including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and other federal territories and possessions) or (2) Canadian agents/attorneys reciprocally recognized by the USPTO’s Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED) who are appointed in connection with a U.S.-licensed attorney, and who are representing trademark registrants located in Canada. See 37 C.F.R. §§2.17(a), 11.1 11.14, 11.14(a), (c), (e). Foreign attorneys (other than recognized Canadian attorneys) cannot sign responses or otherwise represent registrants before the USPTO. See 37 C.F.R. §11.14(c).
If the owner is not represented by an attorney, the response must be signed by the owner or by someone with legal authority to bind the owner (i.e., a corporate officer of a corporate owner, the equivalent of an officer for unincorporated organizations or limited liability company owners, a general partner of a partnership owner, each owner for registrations with multiple individual owners, etc.). 37 C.F.R. §§2.163(b), 2.184(b)(2); see TMEP §§712-712.01(a)(viii).
A non-attorney who is authorized to verify facts on behalf of an owner under 37 C.F.R. §2.33(a)(2) (such as trademark administrators, accountants, business managers, administrative assistants, and personal assistants) cannot sign responses to Office actions unless he or she also has legal authority to bind the owner. See TMEP §§712.03 and 804.04.
IV. RESPONSE GUIDELINES
How to respond. Click to file a Response to Post-Registration Office action.
Direct questions about this Office action to the Post Registration staff member below.
Letsa, Shawnee
/Shawnee Letsa/
Trademark Specialist
Post Registration Division
571-272-9626 Direct
571-273-9626 Fax
Shawnee.letsa@uspto.gov
RESPONSE GUIDANCE