To: | POPULUS FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. (IPDocketing@foley.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88481779 - POPULUS FINANCIAL - 616207-3093 |
Sent: | April 05, 2020 06:10:24 PM |
Sent As: | ecom117@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. 88481779
Mark: POPULUS FINANCIAL
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Correspondence Address: 2021 MCKINNEY AVE., SUITE 1600
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Applicant: POPULUS FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.
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Reference/Docket No. 616207-3093
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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.
Issue date: April 05, 2020
This Office action is in response to applicant’s communication filed on March 12, 2020. The amendments and limitations to the recitations of services, the disclaimer, and the fees for the additional class are acceptable. The Section 2(d) refusal is withdrawn.
The examining attorney has carefully reviewed the applicant’s response and determined that the following requirements are outstanding and now made FINAL.
Services
Applicant may adopt the following identification, if accurate:
Promoting the deposit account banking services of others through digital media, printed and audio promotional materials and retail sales personnel; customer service management for others in the field of online banking; providing business management and business consulting services to holding companies and subsidiaries and affiliates thereof all in the financial services industry; providing business development and management of brands for holding companies, subsidiaries and affiliates thereof all in the financial services industry, specifically excluding entertainment content, and multimedia entertainment content intended for display on television broadcast, cable, internet-based platforms, theatrical, home video, or other entertainment distribution platforms and excluding entertainment products, licenses, advertising or other promotions for radio shows, television shows, motion pictures, and multimedia entertainment content; providing business development and management of brands for holding companies, subsidiaries and affiliates thereof all in the financial services industry, specifically excluding the promotion of the goods and services of others for government buildings, sports facilities, exhibition arenas, event halls, event spaces, convention centers, educational buildings, entertainment districts and mixed-used buildings and excluding commercial administration of the licensing of the goods and services of others generated through sponsorship for radio shows, television shows, motion pictures, and multimedia entertainment content intended for display on television, broadcast, cable, internet-based platforms, theatrical, home videos, or other entertainment distribution platforms. International Class 35.
International Class 36 is acceptable as amended.
These requirements are made FINAL.
THIS PARTIAL REQUIREMENT APPLIES ONLY TO THE SERVICES SPECIFIED THEREIN
In such case, the application will proceed for the following services only: “Promoting the deposit account banking services of others through digital media, printed and audio promotional materials and retail sales personnel; customer service management for others in the field of online banking” and “Financial services, namely, check cashing and credit card authorization services; financing of loans; deposit account services, namely, transaction account and savings account services; debit card transaction processing services; bill payment services; electronic transfer of funds and currency transfer services; cash distribution, namely, electronic cash transaction services; financial services, namely, vehicle title loans; cash withdrawal services, namely, ATM banking services; loan financing; online loan services; arranging of loans; money order services; financial services, namely, money lending services; installment loans; financial management, namely, providing an internet website portal in the fields of online financial transaction and payment processing services and consumer transaction account and savings account services all via the Internet; holding company services, namely, providing financial analysis and research services to subsidiaries and affiliates; financial loan consultation; management of checking account services, including checkless transaction account services”.
Applicant may respond to this final Office action by providing one or both of the following:
(1) A request for reconsideration that fully resolves all outstanding requirements and refusals; and/or
(2) An appeal to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board with the required filing fees.
TMEP §715.01; see 37 C.F.R. §2.63(b)(1)-(2).
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).
/D. Beryl Gardner/
Trademark Examining Attorney
Law Office 117
571-272-9162 (O)
571-273-9162 (F)
beryl.gardner@uspto.gov
RESPONSE GUIDANCE