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OMB No. 0651-0009 (Exp 02/28/2018)

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Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number. PTO Form 1478 (Rev 09/2006)

OMB No. 0651-0009 (Exp 02/28/2018)

Trademark/Service Mark Application, Principal Register

Serial Number: 87635242

Filing Date: 10/05/2017

To the Commissioner for Trademarks:

MARK: VERISK (stylized and/or with design, see mark)

The literal element of the mark consists of VERISK.
The mark consists of a stylized letter "V" superimposed on a circle background with horizontal lines to the left of the word "VERISK".
The applicant, Insurance Services Office, Inc., a corporation of Delaware, having an address of
      545 Washington Boulevard
      Jersey City, New Jersey 07310
      United States

requests registration of the trademark/service mark identified above in the United States Patent and Trademark Office on the Principal Register established by the Act of July 5, 1946 (15 U.S.C. Section 1051 et seq.), as amended, for the following:

       International Class 035:  Subscriptions to a computer service for the insurance industry for providing information relating to changes in insurance coverages and policies and for completing insurance applications with applicant information from existing databases; Providing business risk assessment information to insurance carriers; Providing information in the field of property and casualty insurance claims auditing; Providing referral services for building improvement, remodeling, and repair service providers; Providing building and construction cost assessments and cost-estimating services; Providing health care utilization and review information services regarding health care cost management for cost recovery opportunities and processing of health care information particularly to identify missed or incorrect coding, and quality problems and initiatives; Providing healthcare cost review regarding cost reduction services to insurance organizations and other payors of healthcare claims; Providing and analyzing statistical health data to uncover and identify healthcare fraud and healthcare claims errors; Business investigations for fraud prevention; Prepayment cost reduction services, namely, clinical cost analysis of suspect claims provided to insurance companies and other payers of health care claims; Providing an online cost-modeling database featuring replacement cost estimates for building structures used in the insurance field for contracting work; Analyzing computer data, and preparing reports of information generated during the operation of vehicles, instruments and machinery for business purposes; Providing estimates of the costs of building repair, restoration, and reconstruction; Providing pricing information for use in estimating and valuing the costs of construction, remodeling, repair or replacement of residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural structures and the fixtures and contents thereof; Compilation and analysis of data in the fields of energy and natural resources, agriculture, mining, transportation, supply chain logistics, engineering, weather, environment and climate, cartography, insurance, banking, finance, construction, real estate, law enforcement, emergency services, government, real estate, and geopolitics; Auditing of insurance claims estimations, namely, insurance claims auditing services; Providing business information in the fields of imagery and geospatial data; Providing in-person and on-line forums in the fields of technology, use of imagery, geospatial intelligence and analysis, manned and unmanned aerial vehicles and related technology in the nature of computer vision technology and mobile remote sensing technologies, insurance, real estate, building and construction, catastrophes, climate, environment and weather events and issues, surveillance, energy, natural resources, geopolitics, and agriculture; Consulting services in the field of energy, energy usage management and energy efficiency; Providing business information in the fields of energy and energy efficiency, agriculture, natural resources, and geopolitical issues; Business research and data analysis services in the field of drone services; Obtaining and providing information and imagery on facilities and structures in the field of energy, to assist in business risk management and analysis; Providing an interactive website featuring information, imagery, and analysis relating to assessment of energy efficiency and business risk management; Providing information, imagery, and analysis relating to energy, energy efficiency, geopolitics, mining, supply chain logistics, government; Providing information, imagery and analysis relating to assessment of energy efficiency and business risk management; Trade information in the field of insurance; Compilation and analysis of business information to assist in risk management and analysis, risk analytics, risk calculation, risk mitigation, risk forecasting, financial risk assessment, financial and investment analysis; Providing business risk assessment information to insurance carriers; Arranging and conducting business conferences; Arranging and conducting business conferences for persons in the business of insurance and risk management; Preparing electronic reports for business or commercial purposes in the fields of insurance, insurance services, insurance management and analysis, risk management and analysis, risk analytics, risk calculation, risk mitigation, risk forecasting, financial risk assessment, and financial and investment analysis; Providing databases with information in the field of business strategic and operational risk management and analysis, business strategic and operational risk analytics, business strategic and operational risk calculation, business strategic and operational risk mitigation, business strategic and operational risk forecasting; Business strategic and operational risk management services; Preparing electronic reports for business strategic and operational purposes in the fields of insurance, insurance services, insurance management and analysis, risk management and analysis, risk analytics, risk calculation, risk mitigation, risk forecasting, financial risk assessment, and financial and investment analysis; Marketing consultancy and business risk management provided to financial services institutions; Data integration, namely, data processing services provided to financial services institutions; Business data analysis for measuring the effectiveness of advertisements and targeting consumers; Benchmarking for the financial services industry, namely, providing commercial information and market research information in the field of credit card, debit card, deposit, and other financial transactions; Business assistance; Business analysis; Business strategy planning services; Business management; Business administration; Business appraisals; Business information; Business investigations; Business management and organization consultancy; Business research; Provision of commercial information; Compilation of information into computer databases; Compilation of statistics; Economic forecasting; Provision of business information; Marketing research and marketing studies; Publication of publicity texts and publicity agents; Systemization of information into computer databases; Provision of commercial intelligence, namely, providing business and market intelligence services; business planning; All the aforesaid services relating to the energy, chemicals, metals, mining and commodities industries; Advisory and consulting services in the field of methodologies for cost accounting projects, business process improvement and business management relating to resource planning for the mining and resource industry in the nature of mine planning, equipment scheduling, maintenance scheduling, financial modelling, production scheduling, materials management, quality management, human resources management, project management relating to mine planning, equipment scheduling, maintenance scheduling, financial modelling, production scheduling, materials management, and quality management; Project management for business purposes in the field of mine planning, equipment scheduling, maintenance scheduling, financial modelling, production scheduling, materials management, and quality management; Providing commercial information in relation to resource planning for the mining and resource industries; Providing commercial information in the fields of energy, oil and gas, and coal and metals mining extraction; Computer services, namely, information storage and retrieval and computerized database management relating to the handling, storage and regulation of hazardous waste materials; Business consulting and advisory services relating to product regulatory compliance, namely, services relating to compliance with customer, industry and/or regulatory obligations; Data management services relating to compliance with customer, industry and/or regulatory obligations for use in data collection and database management in the field of product regulatory compliance; Business risk management consultation services in the nature of assisting banks in quantifying the level of risk posed by merchants through analysis of merchant websites; Providing medical referrals and scheduling of medical appointments; Providing information and databases in the fields of merchant risk assessment and merchant compliance with customer, industry and/or regulatory obligations; Providing data in the field of consumer behavior; Maintaining a registry with information on ownership and theft of assets; Maintaining a database in the nature of a registry that provides data on the ownership of construction equipment for use by the insurance industry and law enforcement; maintaining a registry of investigators of stolen equipment; Compilation and analysis of information relating to fire protection efforts for use in the fields of insurance and financial services; Preparation of reports with information on and analysis of wildfires and risk associated with wildfires, and ratings information relating to wildfires used to evaluate risk; compiling and analyzing data for use in the insurance and financial industries; compilation and analysis of information relating to wildfires and analysis of risk associated with wildfires; compilation and analysis of ratings information relating to wildfires used to evaluate risk; providing risk analysis ratings information to the insurance industry relating to wildfires used to evaluate risk; Business consulting in the fields of weather, climate and environmental risk; Consulting and advisory services in the field of business risk analysis associated with energy service interruption; providing information in the field of business risk analysis associated with energy services interruption via the internet; Compilation and analysis of data to assist in insurance claims management and analysis, and business risk management and analysis; providing business information, namely business information on weather events, other catastrophes, and business information related to estimates of insured loss and actual insured loss resulting from catastrophic events, to assist in insurance claims management and analysis, risk management and analysis, business risk assessment, and financial and investment analysis; providing on-line databases featuring business information, namely, business information related to weather-related events, other catastrophic events, and business information related to estimates of insured loss and actual insured loss resulting from catastrophic events; Providing databases and information about energy and energy analytics; providing consulting and advisory services in the field of energy.
Intent to Use: The applicant has a bona fide intention, and is entitled, to use the mark in commerce on or in connection with the identified goods/services.


Claim of Active Prior Registration(s)
The applicant claims ownership of active prior U.S. Registration Number(s) 3986078, 3986082, 3978476, and others.

The applicant's current Attorney Information:
      Michael R. Friscia and Kelly J. Garrone and Irene Hurtado of McCarter & English, LLP      100 Mulberry Street, 4 Gateway Center
      Newark, New Jersey 07102
      United States
      973-622-4444(phone)
      973-624-7070(fax)
      mfriscia@mccarter.com (authorized)
The attorney docket/reference number is 097171-00012.

The applicant's current Correspondence Information:

Michael R. Friscia

McCarter & English, LLP

100 Mulberry Street, 4 Gateway Center

Newark, New Jersey 07102

973-622-4444(phone)

973-624-7070(fax)

mfriscia@mccarter.com;kknoll@mccarter.com (authorized) E-mail Authorization: I authorize the USPTO to send e-mail correspondence concerning the application to the applicant, the applicant's attorney, or the applicant's domestic representative at the e-mail address provided in this application. I understand that a valid e-mail address must be maintained and that the applicant or the applicant's attorney must file the relevant subsequent application-related submissions via the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS). Failure to do so will result in the loss of TEAS Reduced Fee status and a requirement to submit an additional processing fee of $125 per international class of goods/services.

A fee payment in the amount of $275 has been submitted with the application, representing payment for 1 class(es).

Declaration

	Basis: If the applicant is filing the application based on use in commerce under 15 U.S.C. § 1051(a): The signatory believes that the applicant is the owner of the trademark/service mark sought to be registered; The mark is in use in commerce on or in connection with the goods/services in the application; The specimen(s) shows the mark as used on or in connection with the goods/services in the application; and To the best of the signatory's knowledge and belief, the facts recited in the application are accurate. And/Or If the applicant is filing the application based on an intent to use the mark in commerce under 15 U.S.C. § 1051(b), § 1126(d), and/or § 1126(e): The signatory believes that the applicant is entitled to use the mark in commerce; The applicant has a bona fide intention to use the mark in commerce on or in connection with the goods/services in the application; and To the best of the signatory's knowledge and belief, the facts recited in the application are accurate.
	To the best of the signatory's knowledge and belief, no other persons, except, if applicable, concurrent users, have the right to use the mark in commerce, either in the identical form or in such near resemblance as to be likely, when used on or in connection with the goods/services of such other persons, to cause confusion or mistake, or to deceive.
	To the best of the signatory's knowledge, information, and belief, formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances, the allegations and other factual contentions made above have evidentiary support.
	The signatory being warned that willful false statements and the like are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, and that such willful false statements and the like may jeopardize the validity of the application or submission or any registration resulting therefrom, declares that all statements made of his/her own knowledge are true and all statements made on information and belief are believed to be true.

Declaration Signature

Signature: /Christopher H Perini/   Date: 10/03/2017
Signatory's Name: Christopher H. Perini
Signatory's Position: Vice President
Payment Sale Number: 87635242
Payment Accounting Date: 10/06/2017

Serial Number: 87635242
Internet Transmission Date: Thu Oct 05 16:15:50 EDT 2017
TEAS Stamp: USPTO/BAS-XX.XX.XX.XX-201710051615507389
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