Examiners Amendment

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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

 

 

 

EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT

 

 

Issue date:  September 09, 2019

 

Application has been amended as shown below.  As agreed to by Matthew Saunders on 9 September 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 Services – Classes 42 and 45

With respect to Classes 42 and 45, the identification of services is amended to read as follows: 

 

Class 42:

Fraud and identity theft services in the nature of personal information and financial identity monitoring, namely, electronic monitoring of potential identity theft via scans of the dark web, chat rooms, forums and online databases to detect personally identifiable information; Electronic monitoring of online public records to facilitate the detection of and prevention of identity theft and fraud by identifying personally identifiable information via the internet; Electronic monitoring of personally identifying information to detect identity theft via the internet; Electronic monitoring of credit card activity to detect fraud via the internet; Electronic monitoring of personally identifying financial information to detect fraud and identity theft via the Internet for the purposes of identity restoration and for maintaining security after identity theft or fraud; Electronic monitoring of personally identifying financial information to detect fraud and identity theft via the Internet; Identity theft protection services in the nature of electronic monitoring of personally identifying information and personal financial identifying information to detect identity theft via the Internet via scans of the dark web, chat rooms, forums and online databases; Electronic monitoring of the internet, dark web, chat rooms, forums, social media services, public records, and public and private online databases to facilitate the detection and prevention of identity theft and fraud

 

Class 45:

Verification of personal identity as part of personal background investigations in order to provide assistance in fraud resolution

 

See TMEP §§1402.01, 1402.01(e).

 

Amendments to the Record

The disclaimer and the addition of Class 45 are accepted and have been made of record.

 

 

/Katherine Stoides/

Examining Attorney

571-272-9230

katherine.stoides@uspto.gov (unofficial use only)

 

 

 

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

 

USPTO OFFICIAL NOTICE

 

Office Action (Official Letter) has issued

on September 09, 2019 for

U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88462957

 

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. 

 

/Katherine Stoides/

Examining Attorney

571-272-9230

katherine.stoides@uspto.gov (unofficial use only)

 

 

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.”