To: | SparkCognition, Inc. (aparekh@tlgiplaw.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88306014 - TRIPSYNTH - 4058-0020TM |
Sent: | September 05, 2019 02:27:04 PM |
Sent As: | ecom103@uspto.gov |
Attachments: |
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Office Action (Official Letter) About Applicant’s Trademark Application
U.S. Application Serial No. 88306014
Mark: TRIPSYNTH
|
|
Correspondence Address: |
|
Applicant: SparkCognition, Inc.
|
|
Reference/Docket No. 4058-0020TM
Correspondence Email Address: |
|
COMBINED EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT/PRIORITY ACTION NONFINAL 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). A link to the appropriate TEAS response form appears at the end of this Office action.
Issue date: September 05, 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.
Applicant must address issues shown below. On September 5, 2019, the examining attorney and Kenton R. Mullins discussed the issues below. Applicant must timely respond to these issues. See 15 U.S.C. §1062(b); 37 C.F.R. §2.62(a); TMEP §708.05.
ADDITIONAL FEES REQUIRED
The fee for adding classes to a TEAS Reduced Fee (RF) application is $275 per class. See 37 C.F.R. §§2.6(a)(1)(iii), 2.23(a). See more information regarding the requirements for maintaining the lower TEAS RF fee and, if these requirements are not satisfied, for adding classes at a higher fee using regular TEAS.
Application has been amended as shown below. As agreed to by the individual identified in the Priority Action section, the examining attorney has amended the application as shown below. Please notify the examining attorney immediately of any objections. TMEP §707. 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).
Amended Identification of Goods & Services
The identification of goods and services is amended to read as follows:
“Downloadable computer software for display and scheduling of transportation vehicles and services; downloadable computer software for arranging and booking transportation vehicles and services; downloadable computer software for aggregating, processing, and disseminating transportation vehicle and service information pertaining to multiple transportation logistics providers; downloadable computer software for simultaneously displaying and comparing transportation vehicles and services from multiple transportation logistics providers; downloadable computer software for recommending a specific one of multiple available transportation logistics providers for a particular trip; downloadable computer software for planning transportation logistics for a future trip,” in International Class 9;
“Providing a website with information about scheduling transportation vehicles, namely, arranging the transportation of vehicle goods of others; business management services, namely, providing a website aggregating, processing, and disseminating transportation vehicle and service information pertaining to multiple transportation logistics providers; comparison shopping services, namely, providing a website simultaneously displaying and comparing transportation vehicles and services from multiple transportation logistics providers; providing recommendations of service providers to consumers for commercial purposes, namely, providing a website recommending a specific one of multiple available transportation logistics providers for a particular trip; providing a website with information about planning transportation logistics in the nature of planning and scheduling shipments for users of transportation services for a future trip,” in International Class 35; - ADDED CLASS
“Providing a website with information about scheduling, namely, information about transportation reservation of vehicles and transportation consulting services; providing a website with information about arranging in the nature of making reservations and booking transportation vehicles and services; providing a website with information about planning transportation logistics in the nature of transportation reservations of vehicles for a future trip,” in International Class 39; and
“Providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for display and scheduling of transportation vehicles and services; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for arranging and booking transportation vehicles and services; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for aggregating, processing, and disseminating transportation vehicle and service information pertaining to multiple transportation logistics providers; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for simultaneously displaying and comparing transportation vehicles and services from multiple transportation logistics providers; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for recommending a specific one of multiple available transportation logistics providers for a particular trip; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for planning transportation logistics for a future trip,” in International Class 42. - NO CHANGE
See TMEP §§1402.01, 1402.01(e).
RESPONSE GUIDELINS
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 e-mail correspondence address; and (3) agree to receive correspondence from the USPTO by e-mail 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 e-mail without incurring this additional fee.
How to respond. Click to file a response to this nonfinal Office action.
/Erin Z. Dyer/
Erin Zaskoda Dyer
Trademark Examining Attorney
Law Office 103
(571) 272-9740
erin.zaskoda@uspto.gov (preferred)
RESPONSE GUIDANCE