To: | Sambazon, Inc. (USTM.docketing@seedip.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88425482 - #PURPLE FOR THE PLANET - 830090.293 |
Sent: | July 30, 2019 02:09:41 PM |
Sent As: | ecom103@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. 88425482
Mark: #PURPLE FOR THE PLANET
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Applicant: Sambazon, Inc.
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Reference/Docket No. 830090.293
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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: July 30, 2019
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.
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SEARCH OF OFFICE’S DATABASE OF MARKS – NO CONFLICTING MARKS
The trademark examining attorney has searched the Office’s database of registered and pending marks and has found no conflicting marks that would bar registration under Trademark Act Section 2(d). TMEP §704.02; see 15 U.S.C. §1052(d).
INFORMALITIES
Amendment to mark description required
A complete description must identify all the literal and design elements in the mark and specify where the colors appear in those elements. See 37 C.F.R. §§2.37, 2.52(b)(1); TMEP §§807.07(a) et seq.
The following description is suggested, if accurate:
The mark consists of the hash symbol "#" in black and the words "PURPLE FOR THE PLANET", with the word "PURPLE" in the color purple and the words FOR THE PLANET in black.
Clarification of identification of services required – Class 35
Applicant may amend the identifications as follows if accurate:
Class 35: “Promoting public awareness of environmental conservation, rainforest preservation, and animal extinction through the organization of special projects, events, and social media action”; and
Class 36: “Charitable services, namely, developing, and organizing special fundraising projects, events, and social media action to bring public awareness to environmental conservation, rainforest preservation, and animal extinction; charitable fundraising”.
For assistance with identifying and classifying goods and services in trademark applications, please see the USPTO’s online searchable U.S. Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual. See TMEP §1402.04.
EMAIL COMMUNICATION ENCOURAGED
/Carolyn A. Pendleton/
Trademark Examining Attorney
Law Office 103
571-272-9207
carolyn.pendleton@uspto.gov
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