Examiners Amendment

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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

 

 

 

EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT

 

 

Issue date:  April 01, 2020

 

 

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 Leslie Darby on April 1, 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 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).

 

Following entry of the amendments below the likelihood of confusion refusal will be withdrawn.

 

Identification of Goods and Services

 

The identification of goods and services is amended to state:

 

Class 9:           No changes.

Class 16:         No changes.

Class 35:         Providing online business information for financial services professionals, namely, commission statements, quarterly reports, and client account information and invoices; Offering a website that provides financial services professionals with business data and reports to support their practices; Promoting the services of financial professionals through search engine referral traffic and analysis

 

Class 36:         Providing information, advisory, consultancy, and research services to financial services professionals in the fields of financial management and financial investment advisory services; Investment account management services, namely, providing customizable brokerage accounts consisting of mutual funds and individual securities; Financial management services, namely, investment management services offered to high net worth individuals; Financial portfolio management; Financial investment brokerage; Securities and commodities brokerage; Insurance brokerage; Financial administration of retirement plans; Providing financial and investment portfolio review and analysis; Financial services, namely, assisting others with the completion of financial transactions for stocks, bonds, securities and equities; Financial planning services, namely, providing information and advice in the fields of retirement planning, estate planning, investment portfolio management, and wealth optimization; Providing a website for use by financial services professionals in financial planning and estate planning featuring customizable forms; Providing financial information in the form of online non-downloadable articles, reports, and white papers in the field of financial advising and investing; Providing financial indices of select securities to enable financial services professionals to evaluate investment and market trends in the securities market; Providing financial information by telephone and by means of a global computer network.

 

Class 41:         Educational services, namely, providing seminars, classes, workshops, and continuing education courses in the fields of financial planning, investing, insurance, financial portfolio management, estate planning, professional money management, financial investment brokerage, business management, business development, marketing, sales methods, leadership, customer relationship management, and technology to support financial services professionals; Professional coaching programs, namely, conducting workshops concerning investment portfolio management for financial and investment advisors.

 

Class 42:         Providing online non-downloadable software to financial services professionals for the creation and presentation of assessment reports and financial plans; Providing online non-downloadable software for the preparation of legal documents, namely, wills and estate planning documents; Providing a website featuring online non-downloadable software in the financial planning field, namely, software as a service (SAAS) featuring software for use by financial services professionals to design, assess, manage, and report financial plans, conduct financial and investment transactions, and assess and manage financial portfolios and investments; Software as a service (SAAS) for financial planning, namely, online non-downloadable software that provides information and assessments in the fields of retirement planning, estate planning, investment portfolio management, and tax optimization strategies; Computer technology support services, namely, help desk support services.

 

37 C.F.R. §2.32(a)(6); TMEP §1402.01.  

 

/Doritt Carroll/

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 116

571-272-9138

doritt.carroll@uspto.gov

 

 

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

 

USPTO OFFICIAL NOTICE

 

Office Action (Official Letter) has issued

on April 01, 2020 for

U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88479698

 

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. 

 

/Doritt Carroll/

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 116

571-272-9138

doritt.carroll@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.”