To: | BIGFOOT VENTURES LLC (jm@moas.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 87321338 - LYNX - 7175/2017 |
Sent: | August 18, 2020 07:48:40 PM |
Sent As: | ecom101@uspto.gov |
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United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Office Action (Official Letter) About Applicant’s Trademark Application
U.S. Application Serial No. 87321338
Mark: LYNX
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Applicant: BIGFOOT VENTURES LLC
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Reference/Docket No. 7175/2017
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NONFINAL OFFICE ACTION
The USPTO must receive applicant’s response to this letter within six months of the issue date below or the application will be abandoned. Respond using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS). A link to the appropriate TEAS response form appears at the end of this Office action.
Issue date: August 18, 2020
This Office action is in response to applicant’s communication filed on 20 December 2019.
Filing Basis Required
An applicant may add one or more of the following four bases to an application after filing:
(1) Use of the mark in commerce under Trademark Act Section 1(a);
(2) A bona fide intention to use the mark in commerce under Section 1(b);
(3) A foreign registration of the same mark for the same goods and/or services in an applicant’s country of origin, under Section 44(e); and/or
(4) A claim of priority based on an earlier-filed foreign application of the same mark for the same goods and/or services, which is filed within six months after the filing date of the foreign application, under Section 44(d).
Although an applicant may assert more than one basis, an applicant may not assert both Section 1(a) for use and Section 1(b) for intent to use for identical goods and/or services. 37 C.F.R. §2.34(b); TMEP §806.02(b).
For more information about the different legal requirements for each basis, for submitting more than one basis, and for instructions on how to satisfy these requirements online using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) form, please go to the Basis webpage.
The following refusal has been obviated: Section 2(d) based on Registration No. 4815722 in Class 42 as the class has been abandoned for failure to respond. See TMEP §§713.02, 714.04. 15 U.S.C. Section 1
How to respond. Click to file a response to this nonfinal Office action.
/Angela M Micheli/
Trademark Examining Attorney, Law Office 101
571.272.9196
571.273.9196 (fax)
angela.micheli@uspto.gov
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