Examiners Amendment

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Office Action (Official Letter) About Applicant’s Trademark Application

EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT

Issue date:  April 05, 2021

PARTIAL ABANDONMENT – APPLICATION HAS BEEN AMENDED

The above-referenced application is partially abandoned because applicant failed to file a response to the final Office action dated 9/21/2020.  See 15 U.S.C. §1062(b); 37 C.F.R. §2.65(a)-(a)(1); TMEP §718.02(a).  To avoid partial abandonment, a response or notice of appeal was due within six months from the date on which the USPTO sent the previous Office action; however, no response or notice of appeal was received within this time period.  See TMEP §715.01. 

The final Office action included refusal(s) and/or requirement(s) that applied to only a portion of the application; therefore, only that portion of the application is abandoned.  See 15 U.S.C. §1062(b); 37 C.F.R. §2.65(a)(1); TMEP §718.02(a). 

The portion of the identification that was the subject of the refusal(s) and/or requirement(s) will be deleted from the application.  The application will proceed with the following identification: 

Class 42 – “Scientific and technological services, namely, conducting research and analysis to determine the extent and impact of different relationships between medical providers through specific disease states as indicated by medical coding to create benchmarks to create new classifications of medical providers for purposes of noting effectiveness and efficiency of the care network and for developing community care networks based on the data; Scientific and technological services, namely, correlation, regression analysis, and machine language learning to determine the extent and impact of different relationships between medical coding through the aggregation of specific disease states into proprietary service lines across multiple medical disciplines as indicated by medical coding, research and analytics specifically for developing a system capable of medical coding interoperability in the field of health providers and medical coding; Scientific and technological services, namely, medical research and analytics specifically for developing community care networks and medical coding interoperability in the fields of health providers and medical coding; Scientific and technological services, namely, medical research and design in the fields of healthcare analytics in medical coding; industrial analysis and research in the field of developing algorithms, care networks, care outcomes, and medical coding as it relates to specific communities; design and development of computer hardware and software; Providing a website featuring resources, namely, non-downloadable software for generating reports relating to the community care profile of hospitals, physicians, labs, home health, and imaging; Providing a website featuring resources, namely, non-downloadable software for medical data collection and medical coding, namely, generating medical coding consisting of data sets containing subcategories and subdivisions, including for medical services coding, for medical diagnosis statements coding, and for medical procedures statements coding; Providing a website featuring resources, namely, non-downloadable software for generating statistical and indexable reports on medical data collection and medical coding for administrative, financial, and analytical purposes; Providing a website featuring resources, namely, non-downloadable software for providing real-time monitoring service of an entire base of patients at any point in time and for proactively predicting the services needed and the resources required to fulfill the clinical needs of each patient in the patient base.” 

If applicant’s failure to respond was unintentional, applicant may file a petition to revive the portion of the application that abandoned.  TMEP §§718.02(a), 1714.01(d).  The petition must be filed within two months of the issue date of this letter using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) Petition to the Director form with the required fee.  See 37 C.F.R. §§2.23(a), 2.66(a); TMEP §§718.02(a), 1714.01(a), (d).  Once the petition is filed, notify the Petitions Office at 571-272-8950 that a petition to revive a partially-abandoned application was filed, specifying the application serial number.

ASSISTANCE: If the applicant has questions regarding this Examiner's Amendment, please contact the undersigned attorney at the below telephone number or e-mail address.

/Emma Sirignano/

Examining Attorney, Law Office 113

United States Patent and Trademark Office

(571) 272-7031

emma.sirignano@uspto.gov

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

USPTO OFFICIAL NOTICE

Office Action (Official Letter) has issued

on April 05, 2021 for

U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88161426

Your trademark application has been reviewed by a trademark examining attorney.  As part of that review, the assigned attorney has issued an official letter.  Please follow the steps below.

(1)  Read the official letter.  No response is necessary.

(2)  Direct questions about the contents of the Office action to the assigned attorney below. 

/Emma Sirignano/

Examining Attorney, Law Office 113

United States Patent and Trademark Office

(571) 272-7031

emma.sirignano@uspto.gov

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