Examiners Amendment

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE (USPTO)

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

 

 

 

EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT

 

ISSUE/MAILING DATE: 3/21/2018

 

 

 

APPLICATION HAS BEEN AMENDED:  In accordance with the authorization granted by Ms. Catherine Stockell on March 13, 2018, the trademark examining attorney has amended the application as indicated below.  Please advise the undersigned immediately of any objections.  Otherwise, no response is necessary.  TMEP §707.  Any amendments to the identification of goods and/or services may clarify or limit the goods and/or services, but may not add to or broaden the scope of the goods and/or services.  37 C.F.R. §2.71(a); see TMEP §§1402.06 et seq.

 

Identification of Services

 

The identification of services is amended to read as follows: 

 

Class 035:  Business consultancy services; business management consultancy; business organization consultancy; business administration services; business administration consultancy; business organization, management and administration consultancy; business administration and consultation services, namely, providing proxy voting distribution, management, processing and reporting services; business administration services, namely, providing a website featuring notice services, namely, posting proxy and annual meeting materials, providing notice preference managements, allowing shareholders to request full set copies, and providing notice to shareholders of the electronic accessibility of those materials so that they can vote their shares; business administration services, namely, providing a website featuring business information related to a public company's annual report, proxy statement and investor communications materials in a format made easy for reading and searching online and providing a link to download as a PDF for future reference and printing; business administration services, namely, providing proxy voting ballots to shareholders, either electronically or via postal mail, and collecting, storing and tabulating shareholder votes, whether sent by mail, entered online, or voted via interactive voice response over the telephone; business management and administration services, namely, maintaining electronic consent preferences from shareholders with daily e-consent reporting; business management and administration services, namely, SEC-compliant over vote protection service to eliminate the possibility of submitting over votes for banks and brokers; business management and administration services, namely, shareholder survey services; business administration and consultation services, namely, providing business analysis and information to shareholders in the field of vote collections, tabulations and reports from and to banks, brokers, transfer agents and issuers to improve shareholder communications; business administration and consultation, namely, providing voting distribution, management, and processing services; business administration and consultation, namely, processing, managing, collecting, tabulating, and reporting votes; management consulting and advisory services in the areas of corporate strategy, voting and reorganization; business consulting and advisory services in the field of corporate governance, proxy solicitation, shareholder communications, and investor relations; investor relations, namely, assisting companies with the strategy and content of their communications with investors; providing online educational information in the fields of proxy voting, corporate action and reorganization, and evaluation and analysis of business prospectuses, summary prospectuses and business documentation to enable investors to learn, understand, and increase their knowledge on such matters

 

Class 041:  Providing educational classes, seminars and training services in the field of corporate governance, proxy voting, corporate action, reorganization, prospectuses, summary prospectuses, and offering memoranda and distribution of course and training materials in connection therewith to enable investors to learn, understand, and increase their knowledge on such matters; providing educational courses online accessible via internet in the field of corporate governance, proxy voting, corporate action, reorganization, prospectuses, summary prospectuses, offering memoranda and distribution of course and training materials in connection therewith to enable investors to learn, understand, and increase their knowledge on such matters; shareholder communication services in the nature of online non-downloadable customized voting templates and vote tabulation reports

 

 

Class 042:  Providing a website featuring technology that enables shareholders and management to electronically communicate with each other for the purpose of improved shareholder communications related to corporate governance; providing on-line non-downloadable software that enables shareholders and management to electronically communicate with each other for the purpose of improving corporate governance oversight; providing temporary use of on-line, non-downloadable software for providing an interactive guide to investors that introduces, analyzes, and explains provisions in prospectuses, summary prospectuses and financial documentation to enable investors to learn, understand, and increase their knowledge on such matters; providing a secured-access website featuring technology that gives company stock holders, management and affiliates the ability to communicate and share data for the purposes of improving business relations; providing a website featuring technology that enables users to vote on corporate and business initiatives; providing a website featuring technology that enables companies to communicate with their investor community for investor relations; providing temporary use of online, non-downloadable software for providing an interactive guide to investors in the field of prospectus, summary prospectus, offering memoranda, and financial documentation services to enable investors to learn, understand, and increase their knowledge on such matters; providing a website featuring online, non-downloadable computer software for use in notice and access services, namely, posting proxy and annual meeting materials, providing notice and access preference managements, allowing shareholders to request full set copies, and providing notice to shareholders of the electronic accessibility of those materials so that they can vote their shares; providing a website featuring online, non-downloadable computer software for use in document hosting services, namely, hosting a public company's annual report, proxy statement and investor communications materials in a format made easy for reading and searching online and providing a link to download as a PDF for future reference and printing

 

 

 See TMEP §§1402.01, 1402.01(e).

 

Note:  Classes 9, 16 and 39 remain unchanged.

 

 

 

/Kathleen Lorenzo/

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 109

(571) 272-5883

kathleen.lorenzo@uspto.gov

 

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 Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) form at http://www.gov.uspto.report/trademarks/teas/correspondence.jsp.

 

 

 

 

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE (USPTO)

 

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING YOUR

U.S. TRADEMARK APPLICATION

 

USPTO OFFICE ACTION (OFFICIAL LETTER) HAS ISSUED

ON 3/21/2018 FOR U.S. APPLICATION SERIAL NO.87351228

 

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.