Offc Action Outgoing

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE (USPTO)

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

NOTICE:  APPLICATION ABANDONED -

APPLICANT’S RESPONSE UNTIMELY

ISSUE/MAILING DATE: 2/26/2014

The above-referenced application is abandoned because applicant’s response to the previous Notice of Incomplete Response was untimely.  See 15 U.S.C. §1062(b); 37 C.F.R. §2.65(a); TMEP §718.02. 

To avoid abandonment of applicant’s trademark application, the USPTO must have received a properly signed response within (1) thirty (30) days of the date of issuance of the Notice of Incomplete Response, or (2) the time remaining in the six-month period for responding to the previous Office action, whichever was longer.  In the present case, the trademark examining attorney issued the Notice of Incomplete Response on January 2, 2014; therefore, applicant was required to submit a proper response on or before January 31, 2014.  However, applicant filed a late response on February 4, 2014.  Because applicant did not file a proper response within the deadline, the application is being held abandoned.  See 15 U.S.C. §1062(b); 37 C.F.R. §2.65(a).

If applicant’s delay in submitting the response was unintentional, applicant may file a petition to revive the abandoned application.  37 C.F.R. §2.66(a); TMEP §§718.02, 1714.  The petition must be filed within two months of the date of issuance of this letter and may be filed online at http://www.gov.uspto.report/trademarks/teas/petition_forms.jsp.  See 37 C.F.R. §2.66(a)(1); TMEP §1714.01(a), (d).  A $100 fee for such a petition is required.  See 37 C.F.R. §2.6(a)(15).

/Sara N. Benjamin/

Examining Attorney

Law Office 110

571.272.8847

sara.benjamin@uspto.gov

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE (USPTO)

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING YOUR

U.S. TRADEMARK APPLICATION

USPTO OFFICE ACTION (OFFICIAL LETTER) HAS ISSUED

ON 2/26/2014 FOR U.S. APPLICATION SERIAL NO.85863310

Please follow the instructions below:

(1)  TO READ THE LETTER:  Click on this link or go to http://tsdr.gov.uspto.report/, enter the U.S. application serial number, and click on “Documents.”

The Office action may not be immediately viewable, to allow for necessary system updates of the application, but will be available within 24 hours of this e-mail notification.

(2)  QUESTIONS:  For questions about the contents of the Office action itself, please contact the assigned trademark examining attorney.  For technical assistance in accessing or viewing the Office action in the Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) system, please e-mail TSDR@uspto.gov.

WARNING

PRIVATE COMPANY SOLICITATIONS REGARDING YOUR APPLICATION:  Private companies not associated with the USPTO are using information provided in trademark applications to mail or e-mail trademark-related solicitations.  These companies often use names that closely resemble the USPTO and their solicitations may look like an official government document.  Many solicitations require that you pay “fees.” 

Please carefully review all correspondence you receive regarding this application to make sure that you are responding to an official document from the USPTO rather than a private company solicitation.  All official USPTO correspondence will be mailed only from the “United States Patent and Trademark Office” in Alexandria, VA; or sent by e-mail from the domain “@uspto.gov.”  For more information on how to handle private company solicitations, see http://www.gov.uspto.report/trademarks/solicitation_warnings.jsp.