Examiners Amendment

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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

 

 

 

EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT

 

 

Issue date:  July 31, 2019

 

 

USPTO database searched; no conflicting marks found.  The trademark examining attorney searched the USPTO database of registered and pending marks and found no conflicting marks that would bar registration under Trademark Act Section 2(d).  15 U.S.C. §1052(d); TMEP §704.02.

 

Application has been amended as shown below.  The trademark examining attorney is amending the application as follows.  No prior approval or authorization from applicant or applicant’s attorney is required.  TMEP §707.02.  Please notify the examining attorney immediately of any objections.  TMEP §707.  Otherwise, no response is required.  Id.  In addition, applicant is advised that amendments to the goods and/or services are permitted only if they clarify or limit them; amendments that add to or broaden the scope of the goods and/or services are not permitted.  37 C.F.R. §2.71(a).

 

Identification of Goods

 

The identification of goods is amended simply to address small typographical issues (“via internet” should read as “via the Internet” and “facilitating commercial transaction” should read as “facilitating commercial transactions”).  It now reads as follows.  See TMEP §§1402.01, 1402.01(e).

 

Downloadable animation audio and video files, ring tones, music, electronic games, and image files in the field of automobiles, cats and dogs and sports for mobile phones; Downloadable databases in the field of payment processing and marketing; Computer operating programs, recorded; Downloadable ring tones for mobile phones; Consumer coupons downloaded from a global computer network; Downloadable computer game software programs; Recorded computer game software programs; Downloadable operating software in the nature of a mobile application for use in global positioning systems (GPS) and communication networks; Recorded computer application software for disseminating advertising for others; Downloadable application software for disseminating advertising for others; Downloadable computer application software for use in conducting social networking services via the Internet; Recorded computer application software for use in conducting social networking services via the Internet; Recorded computer application software for facilitating payment transactions by electronic means; Downloadable computer application software for facilitating payment transactions by electronic means; Downloadable computer software for authenticating user identification; Recorded computer software for authenticating user identification; Recorded computer firmware for use in database management in the field of credit cards business; Recorded computer e-commerce software for facilitating commercial transactions; Downloadable computer e-commerce software for facilitating commercial transactions; Computer operating systems; Magnetic coded cards for accessing computer networks; Magnetically encoded credit card; Encoded identity cards, namely, magnetic identifying cards; Magnetic ID cards for use in connection with payment for services; Electronic payment terminals; Money dispensing and sorting devices, namely, automatic teller machines (ATMs); Credit card terminals, namely, electronic machines for reading credit cards and recording credit card financial transactions; Smart card reader-writers, namely, smart integrated circuit card readers that are also encoders for encoding the smart integrated circuit cards, in Class 9.

In light of the foregoing, all previous requirement(s) and/or refusal(s) is/are satisfied/withdrawn/obviated.  No response is necessary.  However, please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned with any questions.

 

Sincerely,

 

/MaureenDallLott/

 

Maureen Dall Lott

Trademark Examining Attorney, Law Office 105

United States Patent and Trademark Office

571-272-9714

maureen.lott@uspto.gov

 

 

 

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

 

USPTO OFFICIAL NOTICE

 

Office Action (Official Letter) has issued

on July 31, 2019 for

U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88303744

 

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. 

 

Lott, Maureen D.

 

 

Direct questions about navigating USPTO electronic forms, the USPTO website, the application process, the status of your application, and/or whether there are outstanding deadlines or documents related to your file to the Trademark Assistance Center (TAC).

 

 

 

GENERAL GUIDANCE

·       Check the status of your application periodically in the Trademark Status & Document Retrieval (TSDR) database to avoid missing critical deadlines.

 

·       Update your correspondence email address, if needed, to ensure you receive important USPTO notices about your application.

 

·       Beware of misleading notices sent by private companies about your application.  Private companies not associated with the USPTO use public information available in trademark registrations to mail and email trademark-related offers and notices – most of which require fees.  All official USPTO correspondence will only be emailed from the domain “@uspto.gov.”