UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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SERIAL NO: 78/005144
APPLICANT: Amazon.com, Inc.
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CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS: |
RETURN ADDRESS: Commissioner for Trademarks P.O. Box 1451 Alexandria, VA 22313-1451
If no fees are enclosed, the address should include the words "Box Responses - No Fee." |
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MARK: AMAZON
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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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Serial Number 78/005144
NOTICE OF SUSPENSION
This is in response to the applicant’s communication filed on February 2, 2005.
The applicant asserts that suspension of its mark should be lifted because of the dispositions of the four cited prior pending applications. Three of the four cited marks have been abandoned; accordingly, reference to those applications is withdrawn.
However, Serial No. 78001126 remains a live pending application. Until the mark abandons or registers, the examining attorney may take no additional action with respect to the current application.
Accordingly, action on this application is suspended pending the disposition of:
- Application Serial No(s). 78001126
Since applicant's effective filing date is subsequent to the effective filing date of the above-identified application(s), the latter, if and when it registers, may be cited against this application. See 37 C.F.R. §2.83. A copy of information relevant to this pending application(s) was sent previously. The applicant may request that the application be removed from suspension by presenting arguments related to the potential conflict between the relevant applications or other arguments related to the ground for suspension. The applicant's election to present or not to present arguments at this time will not affect the applicant's right to present arguments later.
In the letter of suspension dated May 14, 2001, the examining attorney required the applicant to clarify the type of “payment services” it provides. In its response, the applicant attempted to explain the nature of the services.
Please submit the amended recitation of services in its entirety, so that the amended services may be entered into the record.
Thus, the requirement for an acceptable recitation of services is CONTINUEd.
Effective January 31, 2005 and pursuant to the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005, Pub. L. 108-447, the following are the fees that will be charged for filing a trademark application:
(1) $325 per international class if filed electronically using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS); or
(2) $375 per international class if filed on paper
These fees will be charged not only when a new application is filed, but also when payments are made to add classes to an existing application. If such payments are submitted with a TEAS response, the fee will be $325 per class, and if such payments are made with a paper response, the fee will be $375 per class.
The new fee requirements will apply to any fees filed on or after January 31, 2005.
NOTICE: TRADEMARK OPERATION RELOCATION
The Trademark Operation has relocated to Alexandria, Virginia. Effective October 4, 2004, all Trademark-related paper mail (except documents sent to the Assignment Services Division for recordation, certain documents filed under the Madrid Protocol, and requests for copies of trademark documents) must be sent to:
Commissioner for Trademarks
P.O. Box 1451
Alexandria, VA 22313-1451
Applicants, attorneys and other Trademark customers are strongly encouraged to correspond with the USPTO online via the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), at http://www.gov.uspto.report/teas/index.html.
/Gwen P. Stokols/
Trademark Examining Attorney
Law Office 102
Telephone: 571-272-9263
Fax: 571-273-9263