Examiners Amendment

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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

 

 

 

EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT

 

 

Issue date:  July 14, 2021

 

Application has been amended as shown below.  As agreed to by Stephen Garcia on July 14, 2021, the examining attorney has amended the application as shown below.  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 services are permitted only if they clarify or limit them; amendments that add to or broaden the scope of the goods and services are not permitted.  37 C.F.R. §2.71(a).

 

IDENTIFICATION OF GOODS AND SERVICES

 

The identification of goods and services is amended to read as follows:

 

International Class 35:

 

Accounting services; advertising, marketing, and promotional services; advertising, marketing, and promotional services, namely, promoting third party goods and services; advertising, marketing, and promotional services, namely, advertising services, namely, promoting third party goods and services through on-line medium; arranging and conducting an incentive rewards program to promote the sale of fuel, vehicles, vehicle maintenance services, and telecommunications services; arranging and conducting incentive rewards programs to incentivize engagement with a ridesharing platform; arranging and providing discount programs that enable customers to obtain discounts on goods and services; arranging and providing discount programs to customers to obtain discounts on the cost of goods and services or receive improved services; business administration and management services; business administration and management services, namely, business management consultancy in the field of transportation management services, namely, in the field of planning, coordinating, and tracking the transportation of people and conveyances; business consulting services in the field of transportation of persons and delivery of goods and packages; business consulting services in the field of transportation, freight and delivery; business services, namely, professional staffing services in the nature of filling the temporary and permanent staffing needs of businesses; business services, namely, providing a website featuring online employment information in the nature of personal profiles and job postings; business services, namely, business invoicing services; discount programs, namely, administration of a discount program for enabling participants to obtain discounts on goods and services and receive improved services; issuance and processing of loyalty points, namely, providing incentive award programs through issuance and processing of loyalty points for purchase of a company's goods and services; providing on-line employment information in the field of job postings; providing on-line employment information in the field of job postings, namely, providing an on-line searchable database featuring employment opportunities; business administration of consumer loyalty programs; marketing; membership rewards cards, namely, promoting the goods and services of others by means of the issuance of loyalty rewards cards; arranging and conducting incentive membership rewards programs to incentivize engagement with a ridesharing platform; arranging and conducting incentive membership rewards programs to promote the sale of transportation and delivery services; monitoring, managing, and tracking of transportation of persons and delivery of goods and packages in transit, for business purposes; monitoring, managing, and tracking of conveyances in transit, for business purposes; providing office functions; personnel recruitment and placement; promotion services; providing a website featuring information about business management of transportation logistics services for others, namely, providing business management information about planning, coordinating, and tracking the transportation of people and conveyances; providing a website featuring information about a discount and rewards program for customers; providing a website featuring information about a discount and rewards program for freight carriers; providing a website featuring information about discount and rewards programs; providing a website featuring information about fuel tax and fuel reporting being commercial financial transaction data; providing a website featuring information in the fields of consumer-to-business commerce and business-to-business commerce via a web-based portal; providing an incentive reward program for customers, namely, administration of a discount program that enables participants to obtain discounts on the cost of goods and services or receive improved goods and services through use of a membership card; providing an incentive reward program for freight carriers, namely, administration of a discount program that enables participants to obtain discounts on the cost of goods and services or receive improved goods and services through use of a membership card; providing consumer information about electronic funds storage, transfer, and balances; providing consumer information about electronic payment options and methods; providing consumer information, namely, consumer product information via the Internet; providing business information; administration of customer loyalty rewards programs which provides for customers to earn fuel discounts and rebates, school tuition, car maintenance and repair discounts, roadside assistance, priority rideshare matching, rideshare trip routing and duration information, access to rideshare promotions, and increased flat fares; providing rewards programs for customers, namely, providing, arranging, and conducting incentive rewards programs for customers to promote the sale of transportation and delivery services; providing rewards programs for customers, namely, providing, arranging, and conducting rewards programs, namely, administration of loyalty programs enabling members to obtain access to exclusive discounts, offers, promotions, rewards and features; providing, arranging, and conducting discount programs for customers to obtain discounts on the cost of services or receive improved services; personnel staffing, recruiting, matching and placement services; providing pay statements, namely, payroll preparation, processing, administration and management services; administration of customer loyalty programs and incentive award programs that provide vouchers for others; accounts services, namely, accounting services; transport in the nature of transportation logistics services, namely, arranging the transportation of goods for others; business administration of frequent traveler programs; loyalty programs, namely, providing incentive award programs for customers through the issuance and processing of loyalty rewards points for purchase of a company's goods and services; funds transfer services in the nature of bookkeeping for electronic funds transfer; providing a website featuring information about fuel tax assessment; business services, namely, customer relationship management (CRM); providing information in the field of business administration of incentive loyalty programs that feature discounts, rewards, rewards programs, program profiles, loyalty points, and benefits; brokerage services, namely, providing referrals in the field of employment; brokerage services, namely, brokerage being providing referrals in the field of job placement services; brokerage services, namely, brokerage being providing referrals in the field of delivery services; providing a website featuring information on business administration of frequent traveler bonus programs; providing a website featuring information about transportation logistics management services, namely, about planning, coordinating, and tracking the transportation of people being planning and scheduling shipments for users of transportation services

 

International Class 39:

 

Transport of persons and goods; transport of persons, namely, time-based transport of persons; packaging of goods in the nature of merchandise packaging of a wide variety of consumer goods of others; storage of goods; conveyance rental and sharing services, namely, arranging and coordinating peer-to-peer vehicle sharing and rental services; coordinating travel arrangements for individuals and for groups; coordinating travel arrangements for individuals and for groups, namely, arranging time-based ridesharing services for individuals and for groups; delivery services by air, road, rail, and sea; delivery services by air, road, rail, and sea, namely, delivery of groceries; delivery services being delivery of goods; delivery service, namely, delivery of groceries; providing a website featuring information about transport arrangement for travelers and about conveyance rental and sharing services; providing a website featuring information in the field of transportation; providing a website featuring information in the field of transportation and vehicle moving services; providing a website featuring information regarding delivery services and bookings for delivery services; providing a website featuring information regarding transportation services and bookings for transportation services; providing a website featuring information regarding travel arrangement; providing a website featuring information related with transportation services, traffic and travel times; providing information concerning collection, tracking and delivery of goods in transit; providing information relating to the planning and booking of travel and transport, via electronic means; providing information relating to traffic and traffic congestion; provision of road and traffic information; transport and delivery of goods; delivery of goods, namely, groceries; transportation and delivery services, namely, monitoring, managing, and tracking of transportation of persons and delivery of goods and packages; monitoring, managing, and tracking of conveyances in transit; transportation of passengers and goods; transportation of goods, namely, groceries; transportation of passengers, namely, time-based transportation of passengers; travel arrangement, namely, coordinating travel arrangements for individuals and for groups; travel arrangement, namely, coordinating travel arrangements for individuals and for groups, namely, coordinating time-based ridesharing services for individuals and for groups; travel arrangement; travel arrangement, namely, arranging time-based ridesharing services; travel arrangement, namely, transport arrangement for travelers; travel arrangement, namely, transport arrangement for travelers, namely, arranging time-based transport for travelers; bicycle, electric bicycle, electric assist bicycle, and pedal assist bicycle rental and sharing services; conveyance rental and sharing services; vehicle rental services; vehicle sharing services, namely, arranging and coordinating temporary use of vehicles; providing information about transportation and travel; brokerage services, namely, transport brokerage; transportation management services for others, namely, planning, coordinating, and tracking the transportation of people and conveyances; transportation management services, namely, planning, coordinating, and tracking the transportation of people and conveyances; providing a website featuring information about transportation management services, namely, peer-to-peer vehicle sharing and rental services and about planning, coordinating, and tracking the transportation of people and conveyances; providing a website featuring information in the field of transportation; providing information about travel, via the Internet; providing a website featuring information about transit; providing a website featuring information about transit schedules, routes, and prices; providing a website featuring information about transportation costs; providing a website featuring information about transit tickets; conveyance rental and sharing services, namely, providing temporary use of bicycles; providing a website featuring information about transit, namely, information about transit booking, coordination, arrangement, ticketing, ridership, delays, and location; providing a website featuring information on transportation featuring frequent traveler bonus programs; providing a website featuring information on travel; providing a website featuring information regarding transport arrangement for travelers; providing information relating to the booking of transport for travelers, via electronic means; transport arrangement for travelers; transport, namely, transport of persons and goods by air; transport, namely, air transport services; providing a website featuring information about transportation management services in the nature of transportation of goods, namely, about planning, coordinating, and tracking the transportation of conveyances

 

 

International Classes 9, 12, 16, 36, 38, 41, 42, and 45 are acceptable as written.

 

See TMEP §§1402.01, 1402.01(e).

 

REQUIREMENT WITHDRAWN: The following requirement has been withdrawn:  multiple-class application requirements.

 

 

/Amanda Galbo/

Amanda Galbo

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 125

(571) 272-5391

amanda.galbo@uspto.gov

 

 

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

 

USPTO OFFICIAL NOTICE

 

Office Action (Official Letter) has issued

on July 14, 2021 for

U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88328871

 

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. 

 

/Amanda Galbo/

Amanda Galbo

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 125

(571) 272-5391

amanda.galbo@uspto.gov

 

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.”