To: | Kubota Corporation (trademarks@webblaw.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88246849 - KUBOTA - 9223-1808338 |
Sent: | October 09, 2019 03:15:42 PM |
Sent As: | ecom115@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. 88246849
Mark: KUBOTA
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Applicant: Kubota Corporation
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Reference/Docket No. 9223-1808338
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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: October 09, 2019
This office action is in response to applicant’s communication filed on September 13, 2019.
The identification and substantive foreign registration issues will be examined once the following issue is resolved. They are continued and maintained pending their resolution.
Requirement For Information
Applicant was required, for each foreign registration on which Section 44(e) is based, to provide (i) the expiration date, (ii) the renewal date(s), and (iii) the renewal expiration date(s).
In response, applicant provided for each registration with the exception of 5982588, the date on which the current renewal will expire. However, applicant has not provided the original expiration dates, the renewal dates or the intermediate renewal expiration dates, as applicable. For example, Reg. No. 3238991 originally registered in 1996. Therefore, the registration expiration date and the first renewal date would have been some time in or around 2006, and there would have been another expiration date and renewal date in or around 2016. It is these intermediate dates that are missing from the record and that applicant must provide.
The requirement for information is therefore continued and maintained.
Failure to comply with a requirement for information is grounds for refusing registration. In re Harley, 119 USPQ2d 1755, 1757-58 (TTAB 2016); TMEP §814.
TEAS RF Application Requirements
TEAS PLUS OR TEAS REDUCED FEE (TEAS RF) APPLICANTS – TO MAINTAIN LOWER FEE, ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS MUST BE MET, INCLUDING SUBMITTING DOCUMENTS ONLINE: Applicants who filed their application online using the lower-fee TEAS Plus or TEAS RF application form must (1) file certain documents online using TEAS, including responses to office actions (see TMEP §§819.02(b), 820.02(b) for a complete list of these documents); (2) maintain a valid email correspondence address; and (3) agree to receive correspondence from the USPTO by email throughout the prosecution of the application. See 37 C.F.R. §§2.22(b), 2.23(b); TMEP §§819, 820. TEAS Plus or TEAS RF applicants who do not meet these requirements must submit an additional processing fee of $125 per class of goods and/or services. 37 C.F.R. §§2.6(a)(1)(v), 2.22(c), 2.23(c); TMEP §§819.04, 820.04. However, in certain situations, TEAS Plus or TEAS RF applicants may respond to an office action by authorizing an examiner’s amendment by telephone or email without incurring this additional fee.
Applicant is invited to contact the assigned examining attorney with any questions regarding this action.
Trademark Examining Attorney
Law Office 115
571-270-1528
katherine.chang@uspto.gov
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