Examiners Amendment

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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

 

 

 

EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT

 

 

Issue date:  October 15, 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 Yan Liu, Vice-President of applicant, on October 12, 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).

 

THE DESCRIPTION OF THE MARK HAS BEEN AMENDED

 

The following statements describing color in the mark replace the current description of color in the mark of record:

 

The colors blue, dark blue, and light blue are claimed as a feature of the mark.

 

The mark consists of the stylized wording "SPICA" in italic capital letters. The letter "A" in the word "SPICA" was designed to look like a triangle shape with an opening towards the bottom right hand side. The wording "SPICA" has a continuous color tone of dark blue on the left side changing to blue in the middle and chaining to light blue on the right side. There are four oblong shapes of different lengths and one circle arranged in a semicircle  shape on top of the letters "P" and "I". The lengths of the oblong shapes are arranged from longest to the shortest arranging in order from left to right, with the circle farthest to the right. White is background and is not a claimed feature of the mark.

 

37 C.F.R. §2.52(b)(1); TMEP §807.07(a)(i), (a)(ii).

 

 

 

Michael Larkey

/Michael Larkey/

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 116

(571) 270-5492

michael.larkey@uspto.gov

 

 

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

 

USPTO OFFICIAL NOTICE

 

Office Action (Official Letter) has issued

on October 15, 2019 for

U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88525914

 

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. 

 

Michael Larkey

/Michael Larkey/

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 116

(571) 270-5492

michael.larkey@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.”