To: | World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (lauren.middlen@wwecorp.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88054145 - AKAM - N/A |
Sent: | September 11, 2020 08:28:41 PM |
Sent As: | ecom111@uspto.gov |
Attachments: | Attachment - 1 |
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Office Action (Official Letter) About Applicant’s Trademark Application
U.S. Application Serial No. 88054145
Mark: AKAM
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Correspondence Address: WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
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Applicant: World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.
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Reference/Docket No. N/A
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FINAL 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) and/or Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA). A link to the appropriate TEAS response form and/or to ESTTA for an appeal appears at the end of this Office action.
Issue date: September 11, 2020
This Office action is in response to applicant’s communication filed on August 10, 2020.
In a previous Office action dated February 08, 2020, the trademark examining attorney refused registration of the applied-for mark based on the following: Trademark Act Sections 1, 2, 3, and 45 for failure to function as a mark. In addition, applicant was required to satisfy the following requirement: provide a consent statement.
The substitute specimen is acceptable and entered into the record, and the Sections 1, 2, 3, and 45 refusal is withdrawn.
Based on applicant’s response, the trademark examining attorney maintains and now makes FINAL the requirement in the summary of issues below. See 37 C.F.R. §2.63(b); TMEP §714.04.
SUMMARY OF ISSUES MADE FINAL that applicant must address:
CONSENT STATEMENT REQUIRED
In its August 10, 2020 response, applicant indicated it is in the process of obtaining the required consent. Therefore, applicant’s requirement of both following submissions is made Final:
(1) The following statement:
“AKAM” identifies Sunny Dhinsa, a living individual whose consent is of record.
(2) A written consent, personally signed by the named individual, as follows:
I, Sunny Dhinsa, consent to the use and registration of my name, “AKAM”, as a trademark and/or service mark with the USPTO.
For an overview of the requirements for names appearing in marks, and instructions on how to satisfy this requirement using the online Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) response form, see the Name/Portrait/Signature of Particular Living Individual in Mark webpage.
Failure to comply with a request for information is grounds for refusing registration. In re Harley, 119 USPQ2d 1755, 1757-58 (TTAB 2016); TMEP §814.
ASSISTANCE
How to respond. Click to file a request for reconsideration of this final Office action that fully resolves all outstanding requirements and refusals and/or click to file a timely appeal to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) with the required filing fee(s).
/J. Ian Dible/
J. Ian Dible
Examining Attorney
Law Office 111
(571) 272-0209
ian.dible@uspto.gov
RESPONSE GUIDANCE