To: | Crescent Heights IP, LLC (ipmiami@gtlaw.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88533064 - NUNU - 051465.01150 |
Sent: | October 20, 2019 09:28:07 PM |
Sent As: | ecom109@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. 88533064
Mark: NUNU
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Correspondence Address: 333 S.E. 2ND AVENUE, 44TH FLOOR
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Applicant: Crescent Heights IP, LLC
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Reference/Docket No. 051465.01150
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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 20, 2019
Advisory: Examiner’s Amendment Available
If sending an informal e-mail, please include the serial number and wording “EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT” in the subject field. Upon emailing the examining attorney and authorizing the entry, no further response is necessary and an examiner’s amendment will issue promptly. An examiner’s amendment will expedite processing of the application.
Introduction
Search Results
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).
Advisory: Summary of Issues
5. Advisory: Response Guidelines
Requirement: Explanation of the Mark’s Significance
Requirement: Identification of Goods and Services
THIS PARTIAL REQUIREMENT APPLIES ONLY TO THE GOODS AND SERVICES SPECIFIED THEREIN
The wording “maintaining escrow accounts” in the identification of services is indefinite and needs clarification to specify the purpose of the escrow accounts by common commercial name, e.g. for sales transactions, mortgages, etc. TMEP §1402.01.
If accurate, applicant may adopt the following formulation for drafting an acceptable identification. The suggested language has been bolded for applicant’s convenience.
Class 009: [no changes]
Class 035: Real estate marketing services; providing websites featuring information regarding real estate properties for sale or lease; providing an interactive real estate website which promotes residential housing properties and provides a one-stop online shop for home buyers and renters through offering prospective customers video walk throughs of properties, property descriptions, text, price, location, maps, guidance through the home acquisition and leasing processes, and related information, coordination and assistance services with respect to mortgage loan applications, property inspections, contracts, appraisals, insurance and other home acquisition and leasing matters
Class 036: Real estate leasing and management; real estate agency services; apartment rental services; real estate time sharing services; mortgage brokerage services; mortgage lending services; real estate lending services; mortgage banking services, namely, origination, acquisition, servicing, securitization and brokerage of mortgage loans; maintaining escrow accounts for {specify purpose, e.g., sales transactions, mortgages, etc.}; real estate acquisition services; providing websites featuring information regarding mortgage, lending and brokerage services
Class 042: [no changes]
See TMEP §1402.01.
Advisories
For assistance with identifying and classifying goods and services in trademark applications, please see the USPTO’s online searchable U.S. Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual. See TMEP §1402.04.
Requirement: U.S. Licensed Attorney Attestation
Attorney statement required. Applicant’s attorney must provide the following statement: “I am an attorney who is an active member in good standing of the bar of a U.S. state (including the District of Columbia and any U.S. Commonwealth or territory).” See 37 C.F.R. §2.17(b)(3). This is required for all U.S.-licensed attorneys who are representing trademark applicants at the USPTO. Id.
Requirement: U.S. Licensed Attorney Bar Information
Attorney bar information required. Applicant’s attorney must provide the following bar information: (1) his or her bar membership number, if the bar provides one; (2) the name of the U.S. state, commonwealth, or territory of his or her bar membership; and (3) the year of his or her admission to the bar. 37 C.F.R. §2.17(b)(3). This information is required for all U.S.-licensed attorneys who are representing trademark applicants at the USPTO. Id. If the attorney’s bar does not issue bar membership numbers, applicant must state this for the record. See id.
To provide bar information. Applicant’s attorney should respond to this Office action by using the appropriate TEAS response form and provide his or her bar information in the “Attorney Information” page of the form, within the bar information section. See 37 C.F.R. §2.17(b)(1)(ii). Bar information provided in any other area of the form will be viewable by the public in USPTO records.
Advisory: Response Guidelines
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.
How to respond. Click to file a response to this nonfinal Office action
/Gilbert M. Swift/
Trademark Examining Attorney
Law Office 109
Tel. 1+(571) 272-9028
Gilbert.Swift@uspto.gov
RESPONSE GUIDANCE