Examiners Amendment

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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

EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT

Issue date:  November 12, 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 Kim Kearney on November 11, 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 Class 33 identification of goods is amended to read as follows:

Alcoholic beverage produced from a brewed malt base with natural flavors; Alcoholic beverages, namely, flavor-infused whiskey; Alcoholic beverages, namely, pre-mixed drinks, excluding beers, flavored to taste like popular desserts; Alcoholic cocktail mixes; Alcoholic cocktails in the form of chilled gelatins; Alcoholic cocktails in the form of frozen pops; Alcoholic cocktails in the form of non-chilled gelatins; Alcoholic mixed beverages except beers; Liqueurs; Liqueurs containing cream; Liquor; Liquor and liqueur beverages, namely, vodka, gin, rum, whiskey, wine spritzers, and distilled blue agave liquors; Liquor in ice cream form; Liquor in whipped cream form; Sangria; Wine; Wine coolers being drinks; Wine punch; Wine punches; Wine-based aperitifs; Wine-based beverage, namely, piquette; Wine-based drinks; Wines; Wines and fortified wines; Wines and sparkling wines; Acanthopanax wine (Ogapiju); Alcoholic cocktails containing milk; Alcoholic beverages, except beer; Alcoholic fruit cocktail drinks; Anise; Aperitif wines; Aperitifs with a wine base; Aperitifs with a distilled alcoholic liquor base; Baijiu; Black raspberry wine (Bokbunjaju); Blackcurrant liqueur; Chinese brewed liquor (laojiou); Chinese mixed liquor (wujiapie-jiou); Chinese white liquor (baiganr); Coffee-based liqueurs; Cooking wine; Cream liqueurs; Dessert wines; Distilled agave liquor; Distilled blue agave liquor; Extracts of spiritous liquors; Extracts of spirituous liquors; Flavored liquors; Flavored malt-based alcoholic beverages, excluding beers; Flavored tonic liquors; Fortified wines; Fruit wine; Grape wine; Herb liqueurs; Honey wine; Japanese liquor containing mamushi-snake extracts; Japanese liquor flavored with Japanese plum extracts; Japanese liquor flavored with pine needle extracts; Japanese regenerated liquors (naoshi); Japanese shochu-based mixed liquor (mirin); Japanese sweet rice-based mixed liquor (shiro-zake); Japanese white liquor (shochu); Kits for making wine; Limoncello (lemon liqueur); Mulled wine; Natural sparkling wines; Peppermint liqueurs; Port wines; Pre-mixed alcoholic beverages, other than beer-based; Prepared alcoholic cocktail; Prepared cocktails consisting primarily of distilled spirits and also including beer; Prepared wine cocktails; Red wine; Red wines; Rose wine; Rose wines; Sparkling wines; Sparkling fruit wine; Sparkling grape wine; Spirits and liqueurs; Still wine; Still wines; Strawberry wine; Sweet wines; Table wines; Tonic liquor containing herb extracts (homeishu); Tonic liquor containing mamushi-snake extracts (mamushi-zake); Tonic liquor flavored with Japanese plum extracts (umeshu); Tonic sweet grape wine containing extracts from ginseng and conchona bark (ninjin-kinatetsu wine); White wine; White wines; Wines and liqueurs; Yellow rice wine

See TMEP §§1402.01, 1402.01(e).

/J. Brendan Regan/

Examining Attorney, Law Office 113

571-272-9212

brendan.regan@uspto.gov

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

USPTO OFFICIAL NOTICE

Office Action (Official Letter) has issued

on November 12, 2019 for

U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88568559

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. 

/J. Brendan Regan/

Examining Attorney, Law Office 113

571-272-9212

brendan.regan@uspto.gov

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GENERAL GUIDANCE

·       Check the status of your application periodically in the Trademark Status & Document Retrieval (TSDR) database to avoid missing critical deadlines.

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