Examiners Amendment

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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

 

 

 

EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT

 

 

Issue date:  March 05, 2020

 

 

Application has been amended as shown below.  As agreed to by Brian M. Davis on March 5, 2020, 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 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).

 

Identification of Services

 

The identification of services is amended to read as follows: 

 

International Class 041:  Online educational services, namely, providing online non-downloadable study guides and learning tools, namely, online non-downloadable flash cards; Providing an online computer database of educational information in the academic fields of science, mathematics, history, languages, computer science and technology, arts and humanities, literature, medicine, law, and social sciences for the purpose of academic study; Providing an online computer database of educational information in the field of standardized testing; Providing an online computer database of educational information in the field of sports, including yoga, hiking, football, basketball, baseball, soccer, hockey, golf, gymnastics; Providing an online computer database of educational information in the field of video gaming and board games; Providing an online computer database of educational information in the field of meditation; Providing an online computer database of educational information in the field of photography

 

International Class 042:  Providing an online computer database of educational information in the field of testing, analysis, and evaluation of the knowledge, skills and abilities of others in the fields of information technology, real estate, fitness and nutrition, health and nursing, and emergency response services to determine conformity with occupational and professional certification standards

 

International Class 045:  Providing an online computer database of educational information featuring legal information

 

See TMEP §§1402.01, 1402.01(e).

 

Procedural Information

 

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.  An “opposition” is similar to a federal court proceeding, but this proceeding is held before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, a USPTO administrative tribunal of administrative judges who issue decisions on these matters.  If a third party opposes registration of applicant’s mark by instituting an opposition proceeding, the USPTO will send applicant notice of this opposition. 

 

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. 

 

 

 

 

 

Snabb, Sandra

/Sandra Snabb/

Examining Attorney

Law Office 120

571-272-4633

Sandra.Snabb@uspto.gov

 

 

 

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

 

USPTO OFFICIAL NOTICE

 

Office Action (Official Letter) has issued

on March 05, 2020 for

U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88430191

 

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. 

 

Snabb, Sandra

/Sandra Snabb/

Examining Attorney

Law Office 120

571-272-4633

Sandra.Snabb@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.”