Examiners Amendment

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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

EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT

Issue date:  August 31, 2019

USPTO database searched; no conflicting marks found.  The trademark examining attorney searched the USPTO database of registered and pending marks and found no conflicting marks that would bar registration under Trademark Act Section 2(d).  15 U.S.C. §1052(d); TMEP §704.02.

Application has been amended as shown below.  As agreed to by Charles Riggs on August 30, 2019, 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/or services are permitted only if they clarify or limit them; amendments that add to or broaden the scope of the goods and/or services are not permitted.  37 C.F.R. §2.71(a).

Identification of Goods

The identification of goods is amended to read as follows:  “Garbage bags of paper; Garbage bags of plastic; Trash bags; Trash can liners; Garbage bags of paper; Garbage bags of paper or of plastics; Garbage bags of plastics; Lawn and leaf disposal bags; Leaf disposal bags; Paper garbage bags; Paper refuse bags; Plastic garbage bags; Plastic trash bags; Plastic trash compactor bags; Rubbish bags (made of paper or plastic materials) all of the above for human refuse and trash, not for animal waste.”  See TMEP §§1402.01, 1402.01(e).

/Charles Hiser/

Examining Attorney

Law Office 112

(571) 272-7526

Charles.Hiser@uspto.gov

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

USPTO OFFICIAL NOTICE

Office Action (Official Letter) has issued

on August 31, 2019 for

U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88458373

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. 

/Charles Hiser/

Examining Attorney

Law Office 112

(571) 272-7526

Charles.Hiser@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.”