UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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SERIAL NO: 78/526451
APPLICANT: Johnson & Johnson
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CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS:
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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: CAREFREE
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CORRESPONDENT’S REFERENCE/DOCKET NO: N/A
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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 email address.
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Serial Number 78/526,451
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.
ADVISORY – AMENDMENTS TO GOODS/SERVICES: If the identification of goods and/or services has been amended below, any future amendments must be in accordance with 37 C.F.R. §2.71(a) and TMEP §1402.07(e).
AMENDMENT(S) AUTHORIZED: As authorized by Laurence S. Rickles on July 8, 2005, the application is amended as noted below. If applicant disagrees with or objects to any of the amendments below, please notify the undersigned trademark examining attorney immediately. Otherwise, no response is necessary. TMEP §707.
The following claim of ownership statement is made of record:
Applicant is the owner of U.S. Registration No. 2,733,576.
The Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (“TMEP”)
“TMEP” refers to the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (4th ed., 2005), available on the United States Patent and Trademark Office website at http://www.gov.uspto.report/web/offices/tac/tmep/. This is a detailed guidebook written by the Office to explain the laws and procedures that govern the trademark application, registration and post registration processes.
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.
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.
/Michael E. Hall/
Michael E. Hall
Examining Attorney
Law Office 105
571-272-9299
571-273-9105 (for formal fax responses to Office action)