To: | PENTAIR AQUATIC ECO-SYSTEMS, INC. (bhipdocket@bakerlaw.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Registration No. 3697812 - SWEETWATER - 87463.020484 |
Sent: | 10/05/19 09:12:48 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. 3697812
Mark: SWEETWATER
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Correspondence Address: |
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Owner: PENTAIR AQUATIC ECO-SYSTEMS, INC.
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Reference/Docket No. 87463.020484
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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 5, 2019
The Combined Section 8 Affidavit & Section 9 Renewal Application submitted on AUGUST 27, 2019, cannot be accepted for the reasons set forth below.
Attorney bar information required. The owner’s/holder’s primary attorney of record must provide the following bar information: (1) his or her bar membership number, if the bar provides one; (2) the name of the U.S. state, commonwealth, or territory of his or her bar membership; and (3) the year of his or her admission to the bar. 37 C.F.R. §2.17(b)(3). This information is required for all U.S.-licensed attorneys who are the primary attorney of record for trademark owners/holders at the USPTO. Id. If the attorney’s bar does not issue bar membership numbers, the owner/holder must state this for the record. See id.
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.
Attorney statement required. The owner’s/holder’s primary attorney of record must provide the following statement: “I am an attorney who is an active member in good standing of the bar of a U.S. state (including the District of Columbia and any U.S. Commonwealth or territory).” See 37 C.F.R. §2.17(b)(3). This is required for all U.S.-licensed attorneys who are the primary attorney of record for trademark owners/holders at the USPTO. Id.
ADVISORY: If a response to this Office action is not filed within the response deadline above, and time remains in the grace period, the registrant may avoid cancellation and/or expiration of its registration by filing a new affidavit of use and a new renewal application within the grace period. 37 C.F.R. §§2.163(c) and 2.184(b)(1). Additional fees are required to file a new renewal application during the grace period. 37 C.F.R. §§2.161(d)(1)-(2) and 2.183(b)-(c). For more information about this, please contact the undersigned.
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.
Henson, Everett
/Everett J. Henson/
Trademark Specialist Post Registration Branch
Phone: (571)-272-9529
Fax: (571)-273-9529
e-mail: everett.henson@uspto.gov
RESPONSE GUIDANCE