To: | The Kroger Co. of Michigan (sftrademarks@pillsburylaw.com) |
Subject: | TRADEMARK APPLICATION NO. 78777677 - KROGER - 061148/03247 |
Sent: | 9/18/2006 6:28:17 AM |
Sent As: | ECOM111@USPTO.GOV |
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UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
SERIAL NO: 78/777677
APPLICANT: The Kroger Co. of Michigan
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CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS: |
RETURN ADDRESS: Commissioner for Trademarks P.O. Box 1451 Alexandria, VA 22313-1451
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MARK: KROGER
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CORRESPONDENT’S REFERENCE/DOCKET NO: 061148/03247
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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MAILING/E-MAILING DATE INFORMATION: If the mailing or e-mailing date of this Office action does not appear above, this information can be obtained by visiting the USPTO website at http://tarr.gov.uspto.report/, inserting the application serial number, and viewing the prosecution history for the mailing date of the most recently issued Office communication.
Serial Number 78/777677
Upon further examination of the application, the examining attorney has determined the following.
Identification of Services
The wording “retail gasoline station services” used to describe the services needs clarification because it does not identify the services with the accuracy required for classification. Applicant may adopt the following identification of services, if accurate.
Retail gasoline supply services featuring gasoline pumps in International Class 035.
TMEP §1402.01.
Please note that, while an application may be amended to clarify or limit the recitation, additions to the recitation are not permitted. 37 C.F.R. §2.71(a); TMEP §1402.06. Therefore, the applicant may not amend to include any services that are not within the scope of the services listed in the present recitation. For assistance regarding an acceptable listing of goods and/or services, please see the on‑line searchable Manual of Acceptable Identifications of Goods and Services, at http://www.gov.uspto.report/web/offices/tac/doc/gsmanual/.
If the applicant has any questions or needs assistance in responding to this Office action, please contact the assigned examining attorney.
/allison holtz/
Allison Holtz
Trademark Examining Attorney
allison.holtz@uspto.gov
571-272-9383
HOW TO RESPOND TO THIS OFFICE ACTION:
STATUS OF APPLICATION: To check the status of your application, visit the Office’s Trademark Applications and Registrations Retrieval (TARR) system at http://tarr.uspto.gov.
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FOR INQUIRIES OR QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS OFFICE ACTION, PLEASE CONTACT THE ASSIGNED EXAMINING ATTORNEY SPECIFIED ABOVE.