Examiners Amendment

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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

 

 

 

EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT

 

 

Issue date:  September 25, 2019

 

 

Application has been amended as shown below.  As agreed to by Eric S. Freibrun on September 25, 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 services are permitted only if they clarify or limit them; amendments that add to or broaden the scope of the services are not permitted.  37 C.F.R. §2.71(a).

 

IDENTIFICATION OF SERVICES

 

The identification of services is amended to read as follows:

 

Class 40:         Machine shop services, namely, machining parts for others; metal fabrication services for others; metal stamping, namely, long and short run stamping and high speed stamping; metal fabrication services for others, namely, turret punching and laser cutting; metal fabrication services for others, namely, precision sheet metal forming and fabrication and robotic metal production welding to the order and specification of others; tooling services, namely, custom manufacture of machine components for others; custom manufacture of tools to the order and specification of customers; prototype fabrication of new products, namely, tools for others; custom fabrication of tools and tool management systems; assembly of products, namely, sheet metal assembly for others; custom manufacturing, assembly and testing of electro-mechanical products, enclosures and assemblies for others

 

Class 42:         New product design and engineering services in the fields of : machining parts for others, metal fabrication services, metal stamping being long and short run stamping and high speed stamping, metal fabrication being turret punching and laser cutting, precision sheet metal fabrication and robotic metal production welding to the order and specification of others, tooling services being custom manufacture of machine components for others, custom manufacture of tools to the order and specification of customers, prototype fabrication of new products being tools for others, custom fabrication of tools and tool management systems, sheet metal assembly for others, custom manufacturing, assembly and testing of electro- mechanical products, enclosures and assemblies, and powder coating to apply color and protective finishes

 

See TMEP §§1402.01, 1402.01(e).

 

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

 

After the trademark examining attorney issues the examiner’s amendment, applicant will not receive a registration on the Principal Register for the applied-for mark until the mark makes it through the publication process and opposition period.  The publication process starts once the trademark examining attorney issues the examiner’s amendment and the mark is approved for publication in the USPTO’s Trademark Official Gazette, a weekly online publication.  The USPTO will then send a “Notice of Publication” to the applicant specifying the date its mark will publish in this publication.

 

The USPTO publishes applicant’s mark in the Trademark Official Gazette to provide third parties who believe they may be damaged by registration of applicant’s mark an opportunity to oppose registration of that mark within thirty (30) days from the publication date.  An “opposition” is similar to a federal court proceeding, but this proceeding is held before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, a USPTO administrative tribunal of administrative judges who issue decisions on these matters.  If a third party opposes registration of applicant’s mark by instituting an opposition proceeding, the USPTO will send applicant notice of this opposition. 

 

If no one opposes registration of the mark, and the mark was published based upon an applicant’s actual use of the mark in commerce or on a foreign registration, the USPTO generally registers the mark and issues a registration certificate within approximately twelve (12) weeks after the publication date.

 

For an overview of the time frames for when an applicant should file and the USPTO will issue documents related to a trademark application, see Trademark Application and Post-Registration Process Timelines.  Forms for Statements of Use and extension requests, and additional requirements for intent to use applications, are available online at Intent to Use (ITU) Forms.

 

 

 

/Caile Reid/

Caile Reid

Examining Attorney

Law Office 123

(571) 270-0764

caile.reid@uspto.gov

 

 

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

 

USPTO OFFICIAL NOTICE

 

Office Action (Official Letter) has issued

on September 25, 2019 for

U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88504216

 

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. 

 

/Caile Reid/

Caile Reid

Examining Attorney

Law Office 123

(571) 270-0764

caile.reid@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.”