To: | Gurunanda, LLC (ipocdocket@swlaw.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88455362 - GURUNANDA BEAUTY SERUM - 70194-20900 |
Sent: | January 23, 2020 01:50:06 PM |
Sent As: | ecom125@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. 88455362
Mark: GURUNANDA BEAUTY SERUM
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Correspondence Address:
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Applicant: Gurunanda, LLC
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Reference/Docket No. 70194-20900
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FINAL 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) and/or Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA). A link to the appropriate TEAS response form and/or to ESTTA for an appeal appears at the end of this Office action.
This Office action is in response to applicant’s communication filed on January 2, 2020.
In a previous Office action(s) dated July 1, 2019, applicant was required to satisfy the following requirement(s): disclaim descriptive wording in the mark, clarify whether the mark identified a particular living individual and provide that person’s consent, and submit an additional fee because the application did not meet the TEAS Plus filing requirements.
Based on applicant’s response, the trademark examining attorney notes that the following requirement(s) have been satisfied: disclaim descriptive wording in the mark and clarify whether the mark identified a particular living individual and provide that person’s consent. See TMEP §§713.02, 714.04.
Further, the trademark examining attorney maintains and now makes FINAL the refusal(s) and/or requirement(s) in the summary of issues below. See 37 C.F.R. §2.63(b); TMEP §714.04.
SUMMARY OF ISSUES MADE FINAL that applicant must address:
Lost TEAS Plus Status – Additional Fee Required – Final
For the reasons stated here, this requirement is now made final.
The requirement that applicant submit an additional processing fee of $125 per class because the application as filed did not meet the TEAS Plus application filing requirements is maintained and now made final. See 37 C.F.R. §§2.6(a)(1)(v), 2.22(a), (c); TMEP §§819.01 et seq. , 819.04. Specifically, applicant failed to meet the following application filing requirement(s): a consent to register the mark from the person identified in the mark was not provided with the initial filing.
The additional fee is required even though applicant later corrected these application requirements.
Therefore, the requirement to pay an additional fee because the application did not meet the TEAS Plus filing requirements is now made final.
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 request for reconsideration of this final Office action that fully resolves all outstanding requirements and refusals and/or click to file a timely appeal to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) with the required filing fee(s).
Carr, Patrick
/Patrick Carr/
Trademark Examining Attorney
Law Office 125
(571) 272-9634
patrick.carr@uspto.gov
RESPONSE GUIDANCE