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

 

Application has been amended as shown below.  As agreed to by Noah Drake, an attorney of the firm on record, on July 30, 2019, the examining attorney has amended the application as shown below. 

 

IDENTIFICATION OF SERVICES

 

The identification of services is amended to read as follows (amended wording in bold, deletions in strikethroughs): 

 

Class 42          Platform as a service (PAAS) featuring computer software platforms for multi-chain, multi-cloud network management that deploys nodes and connects them to blockchains, and that enables users to manage blockchain applications; providing on-line non-downloadable computer software for enabling users to electronically create, exchange, store, send, receive, accept, and transmit digital tokens based on the blockchain technology; computer services, namely, providing on-line non-downloadable computer software platforms for developing, building, and operating distributed applications; software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for the encryption and authentication of the integrity of all data, digital assets, documents, and files across multiple channels using blockchain technology; platform as a service (PAAS) featuring blockchain-based computer software platforms and distributed computing software platforms for auditing and verifying digital information and codes; design, development and implementation of audit and security computer software for blockchain-based platforms; electronic data storage, namely, providing a blockchain technology-based, distributed database ledger for the storage of public, private or encrypted data, transactions and information; developing and updating of computer software for use in managing blockchain data; application service provider (ASP) featuring application programming interface (API) software for providing a platform for the development, testing, and integration of blockchain software applications; application service provider (ASP), namely, hosting computer application software for the purpose of developing, testing, and integrating blockchain applications and software; software as a service (SAAS) featuring software for developing, deploying, updating, and monitoring the performance of machine learning, deep learning, data science, predictive analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence applications; platform as a service (PAAS) featuring computer software platforms for building, hosting, and deploying chatbots and digital assistants; software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for building, hosting, and deploying chatbots and digital assistants; application service provider (ASP) featuring application programming interface (API) software for building, hosting, and deploying chatbots and digital assistants; Consulting services in the field of software as a service (SAAS) services, namely, providing machine learning based predictive security, threat detection, security analytics, remediation and in-context cognitive advice to users seeking to protect and secure computer systems

 

See TMEP §§1402.01, 1402.01(e).

 

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 services are permitted only if they clarify or limit them; amendments that add to or broaden the scope of the services are not permitted.  37 C.F.R. §2.71(a).

 

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

 

After the trademark examining attorney issues the examiner’s amendment, applicant will not receive a registration on the Principal Register for the applied-for mark until the mark makes it through the publication process and opposition period.  The publication process starts once the trademark examining attorney issues the examiner’s amendment and the mark is approved for publication in the USPTO’s Trademark Official Gazette, a weekly online publication.  The USPTO will then send a “Notice of Publication” to the applicant specifying the date its mark will publish in this publication.

 

The USPTO publishes applicant’s mark in the Trademark Official Gazette to provide third parties who believe they may be damaged by registration of applicant’s mark an opportunity to oppose registration of that mark within thirty (30) days from the publication date. 

 

If no one opposes registration of the mark, and the mark was published based upon an applicant’s actual use of the mark in commerce or on a foreign registration, the USPTO generally registers the mark and issues a registration certificate within approximately twelve (12) weeks after the publication date.

 

For an overview of the time frames for when an applicant should file and the USPTO will issue documents related to a trademark application, see Trademark Application and Post-Registration Process Timelines.  Forms for Statements of Use and extension requests, and additional requirements for intent to use applications, are available online at Intent to Use (ITU) Forms.

 

/Joanna Han/

Joanna Han

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 126

(571) 270-3617

joanna.han@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. 88339821

 

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. 

 

/Joanna Han/

Joanna Han

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 126

(571) 270-3617

joanna.han@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.”