Suspension Inquiry

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE (USPTO)

OFFICE ACTION (OFFICIAL LETTER) ABOUT APPLICANT’S TRADEMARK APPLICATION

 

 

 

SUSPENSION INQUIRY:  RESPONSE REQUIRED

 

STRICT DEADLINE TO RESPOND TO THIS LETTER

TO AVOID ABANDONMENT OF APPLICANT’S TRADEMARK APPLICATION, THE USPTO MUST RECEIVE APPLICANT’S COMPLETE RESPONSE TO THIS LETTER WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF THE ISSUE/MAILING DATE BELOW.

 

ISSUE/MAILING DATE: 11/5/2013

 

 

FOREIGN REGISTRATION:  The trademark examining attorney previously suspended action on this application pending receipt of a true copy, a photocopy, a certification, or a certified copy of a foreign registration from applicant’s country of origin or proof of renewal of the foreign registration.  Applicant must specify the status of the relevant foreign application or registration renewal.  TMEP §§716.02(b), 716.05, 1003.04(c); see 15 U.S.C. §1126(e); 37 C.F.R. §2.34(a)(3)(ii)-(iii).  Applicant may respond by stating that the foreign application or renewal is still pending or by submitting a true copy, a photocopy, a certification, or a certified copy of the foreign registration or renewal document.  TMEP §§716.05, 1003.04(c), 1004.01(a).  If the foreign registration or renewal document is not in English, applicant must provide an English translation.  37 C.F.R. §2.34(a)(3)(ii)-(iii); TMEP §1004.01(b).

 

CONTINUED REQUIREMENTS:  The following requirements are continued:

·       Submission of an acceptably-amended identification of services in class 38;

·       Properly classification of services; and

·       Compliance with the requirements of a multiple-class application. 

 

Briefly, applicant may amend the identification of goods and services to the following, in the indicated classes:

 

      Class 9 (acceptable and unchanged):

Telephone apparatus, telephone peripherals and accessories, namely, call processors, fax machines, intercoms, mobile phones, modems, pagers, telephone answering machines, two-way radios, video conferencing phones, cameras and screens, telephone cases, telephone chargers, mobile telephone batteries.

 

Class 35:

Telecommunications network management services, namely, the operation and administration of telecommunication systems and networks for others; telephone answering services.

 

Class 36:

Telephone calling card services; telephone information services featuring information regarding telephone calling card services.

 

Class 37:

Maintenance of telecommunication networks; telephone installation and repair services; telephone information services featuring information regarding maintenance of telecommunication networks and telephone installation and repair.

 

Class 38:

Telecommunication services, namely, telecommunications gateway services; telecommunications network design, planning, maintenance and management services; telephone communications services, namely, cellular telephone services, local and long distance telephone services, mobile telephone communication services, monitoring telephone calls from subscribers and notifying emergency facilities, telephone answering services, telephone calling card services, telephone information services featuring information regarding telephone communication services on a wide variety of topics of general interest to the consuming public, telephone installation and repair

 

Class 42:

Telecommunications network design and planning; monitoring telephone calls from subscribers and notifying emergency facilities, telephone answering services[i];

 

 

 

 

The Office has reassigned this application to the undersigned trademark examining attorney.

 

 

 

/Susan K. Lawrence/

Susan K. Lawrence

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 116

571-272-9186

sue.lawrence@uspto.gov (informal communication)

 

TO RESPOND TO THIS LETTER:  Go to http://teasroa.gov.uspto.report/rsi/rsi.  Please wait 48-72 hours from the issue/mailing date before using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), to allow for necessary system updates of the application.  For technical assistance with online forms, e-mail TEAS@uspto.gov.  For questions about the Office action itself, please contact the assigned trademark examining attorney.  E-mail communications will not be accepted as responses to Office actions; therefore, do not respond to this Office action by e-mail.

 

All informal e-mail communications relevant to this application will be placed in the official application record.

 

WHO MUST SIGN THE RESPONSE:  It must be personally signed by an individual applicant or someone with legal authority to bind an applicant (i.e., a corporate officer, a general partner, all joint applicants).  If an applicant is represented by an attorney, the attorney must sign the response. 

 

PERIODICALLY CHECK THE STATUS OF THE APPLICATION:  To ensure that applicant does not miss crucial deadlines or official notices, check the status of the application every three to four months using the Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) system at http://tsdr.gov.uspto.report/.  Please keep a copy of the TSDR status screen.  If the status shows no change for more than six months, contact the Trademark Assistance Center by e-mail at TrademarkAssistanceCenter@uspto.gov or call 1-800-786-9199.  For more information on checking status, see http://www.gov.uspto.report/trademarks/process/status/.

 

TO UPDATE CORRESPONDENCE/E-MAIL ADDRESS:  Use the TEAS form at http://www.gov.uspto.report/trademarks/teas/correspondence.jsp.