Examiners Amendment

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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

 

 

 

EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT

 

 

Issue date:  October 07, 2019

 

 

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 Angelique M. Riordan, Esq. on October 4, 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).

 

Amendment to Identification and Classification of Goods

 

The identification of goods is amended to read as follows: 

 

“Smart packaging for animal medication containers comprised of encoded electronic chips for use by veterinarians and pet owners for monitoring, dosing, administration and storage conditions of pet medications; hybrid wireless and plug-in devices for transmitting data to temperature recorders and humidity sensors for use in measuring environmental humidity within packaging; electronic labels and tags for sensing and recording multiple inputs relating to environmental conditions and for the detection of use, intrusion, breakage, and integrity of packages, bottles, vials, trays, and pouches; smart packaging for use by veterinarians and pet owners, namely, product packaging inserts in the nature of electronic data recorders and encoded electronic chips with built-in sensors, included with articles in transit or in storage for sensing, monitoring, measuring and recording handling and environment information such as vibration, temperature, humidity, use, intrusion, breakage and integrity of bottles, vials and pouches; Electronic devices comprising electronic data recorders and encoded electronic chips which can be inserted or incorporated into packaging containing pills or medication, which enables veterinarians and pet owners to monitor and record pet medication usage; interactive electronic data recording and transmitting devices which can be integrated into product packaging incorporating circuitry to record usage of package contents, warn of incorrect usage, and optionally transmit usage data to a receiver for use by veterinarians and pet owners; electronic tags for pet medication containers for use by veterinarians and pet owners for sensing and recording multiple inputs relating to handling of said containers and their storage environment; downloadable computer software for programming circuitry contained in pharmaceutical container caps and for received information” in International Class 009

 

“Smart packaging for use by veterinarians and pet owners, namely, product packaging in the nature of plastic safety caps for veterinary medicine containers with built-in sensors, included with articles in transit or in storage for sensing, monitoring, measuring and recording handling and environment information such as vibration, temperature, humidity, use, intrusion, breakage and integrity of bottles, vials and pouches; plastic pharmaceutical container safety caps containing integrated circuitry recording use and transmitting usage data to a monitoring system for use by veterinarians and pet owners” in International Class 021

 

 

See TMEP §§1402.01, 1402.01(e).

 

 

 

 

 

Christopher Hoffman

/Christopher Hoffman/

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 128

(571)272-3351

christopher.hoffman@uspto.gov

 

 

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

 

USPTO OFFICIAL NOTICE

 

Office Action (Official Letter) has issued

on October 07, 2019 for

U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88520092

 

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. 

 

Christopher Hoffman

/Christopher Hoffman/

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 128

(571)272-3351

christopher.hoffman@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.”