To: | Shuai Zhang (czhang@zslawpc.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88510400 - GLOBAL COOPERATION PLATFORM - N/A |
Sent: | October 03, 2019 06:17:50 PM |
Sent As: | ecom120@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. 88510400
Mark: GLOBAL COOPERATION PLATFORM
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Applicant: Shuai Zhang
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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). A link to the appropriate TEAS response form appears at the end of this Office action.
Issue date: October 03, 2019
The referenced application has been reviewed by the assigned trademark examining attorney. Applicant must respond timely and completely to the issues below. 15 U.S.C. §1062(b); 37 C.F.R. §§2.62(a), 2.65(a); TMEP §§711, 718.03.
SEARCH OF OFFICE’S DATABASE OF MARKS
The trademark examining attorney has searched the Office’s database of registered and pending marks and has found no conflicting marks that would bar registration under Trademark Act Section 2(d). TMEP §704.02; see 15 U.S.C. §1052(d).
SPECIMEN TRANSLATION REQUIRED
MARK DESCRIPTION
The following description is suggested, if accurate:
The mark consists of the stylized design of a globe, depicting continents, with the stylized line design of two hands shaking on the bottom of the globe. To the right of the globe are stylized Asian characters, below which is the stylized wording “GLOBAL COOPERATION PLATFORM”.
Applicant must provide a disclaimer of the unregistrable parts of the applied-for mark even though the mark as a whole appears to be registrable. See 15 U.S.C. §1056(a); TMEP §§1213, 1213.03(a). A disclaimer of an unregistrable part of a mark will not affect the mark’s appearance. See Schwarzkopf v. John H. Breck, Inc., 340 F.2d 978, 979-80, 144 USPQ 433, 433 (C.C.P.A. 1965).
In this case, applicant must disclaim the wording “GLOBAL COOPERATION PLATFORM” because it is not inherently distinctive. These unregistrable terms at best are merely descriptive of an ingredient, quality, characteristic, function, feature, purpose, or use of applicant’s services. See 15 U.S.C. §1052(e)(1); DuoProSS Meditech Corp. v. Inviro Med. Devices, Ltd., 695 F.3d 1247, 1251, 103 USPQ2d 1753, 1755 (Fed. Cir. 2012); TMEP §§1213, 1213.03(a).
The attached evidence from BUSINESS DICTIONARY shows that the wording “GLOBAL” refers to business conducted in multiple countries, while the evidence shows that “COOPERATION” refers to businesses working together in a mutually beneficial exchange; therefore, this wording is merely descriptive of a nature and purpose of applicant’s services. Furthermore, the evidence from HORSES FOR SOURCES establishes that “PLATFORM”, in the context of applicant’s business related services, refers to online software-related resources on which business can be conducted, and therefore merely describes a feature of applicant’s services.
Applicant may respond to this issue by submitting a disclaimer in the following format:
No claim is made to the exclusive right to use “GLOBAL COOPERATION PLATFORM” apart from the mark as shown.
For an overview of disclaimers and instructions on how to satisfy this issue using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), see the Disclaimer webpage.
ASSISTANCE
How to respond. Click to file a response to this nonfinal Office action
/John S. Miranda/
Trademark Examining Attorney, Law Office 120
United States Patent & Trademark Office
571-272-4553
John.Miranda@USPTO.GOV
RESPONSE GUIDANCE
TEAS PLUS OR TEAS REDUCED FEE (TEAS RF) APPLICANTS – TO MAINTAIN LOWER FEE, ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS MUST BE MET, INCLUDING SUBMITTING DOCUMENTS ONLINE: Applicants who filed their application online using the lower-fee TEAS Plus or TEAS RF application form must (1) file certain documents online using TEAS, including responses to Office actions (see TMEP §§819.02(b), 820.02(b) for a complete list of these documents); (2) maintain a valid e-mail correspondence address; and (3) agree to receive correspondence from the USPTO by e-mail throughout the prosecution of the application. See 37 C.F.R. §§2.22(b), 2.23(b); TMEP §§819, 820. TEAS Plus or TEAS RF applicants who do not meet these requirements must submit an additional processing fee of $125 per class of goods and/or services. 37 C.F.R. §§2.6(a)(1)(v), 2.22(c), 2.23(c); TMEP §§819.04, 820.04. However, in certain situations, TEAS Plus or TEAS RF applicants may respond to an Office action by authorizing an examiner’s amendment by telephone or e-mail without incurring this additional fee.