Notation to File

NOTE TO THE FILE

SERIAL NUMBER:            88580963

DATE:                                11/19/2019

NAME:                               jsalcido

NOTE:         

Searched:                                                             
     Google                            
     Lexis/Nexis                       
     OneLook
     Wikipedia
     Acronym Finder                         Protest evidence reviewed
     Other:

Checked:                                                             
     Geographic significance          
     Surname                          
     Translation
     ID with ID/CLASS mailbox

     Checked list of approved Canadian attorneys and agents

Discussed file with
Attorney/Applicant via:
        phone                               Left message with
    X   email                               Attorney/Applicant

     Requested Law Library search       X   Issued Examiner’s Amendment
     for:                                   and entered changes in TRADEUPS

        PRINT        DO NOT PRINT           Added design code in TRADEUPS
     Description of the mark
     Translation statement                  Re-imaged standard character
                                            drawing
     Negative translation statement             
     Consent of living individual           Contacted TM MADRID ID/CLASS
                                            about misclassified definite ID
     Changed TRADEUPS to:

     OTHER:

John,

 

Please go ahead and make the changes. 

 

Thank you so much!

 

DLH

On November 18, 2019 at 5:34 PM "Salcido, John" <John.Salcido@USPTO.GOV> wrote:

Dear Mr. Hoyt,

 

I am the Trademark Examining Attorney that has been assigned your case at the U.S. Trademark Office.

 

There are only a few issues that we can fix via email or over the phone that are preventing approval of this application for the next step of the registration process.  With your OK I can make the changes proposed below and move the application forward.

 

Disclaimer Required

 Applicant must insert a disclaimer of “WORD SEARCH” in the application because the terms merely describes a feature of the goods.  See 15 U.S.C. §1056(a); TMEP §§1213, 1213.03(a). The following is the accepted standard format for a disclaimer:

 

No claim is made to the exclusive right to use “WORD SEARCH” apart from the mark as shown.

 

TMEP §1213.08(a)(i).

 

A disclaimer does not physically remove the disclaimed matter from the mark, but rather is a written statement that applicant does not claim exclusive rights to the disclaimed wording and/or design separate and apart from the mark as shown in the drawing.  TMEP §§1213, 1213.10.

 

Identification of Goods

 

A part of the identification of goods and/or services is indefinite and must be clarified.  Specifically, the identification must specify whether the software is downloadable or recorded.   

 

You may adopt the following language to correct this problem (changes are indicated in bold):

Downloadable computer application software for mobile phones, handheld computers, tablets and other electronic devices, namely, computer game programs

 

 

Please respond to this email or call me (you may leave a message of approval) by close of business on  11/21/2019, and I can make the changes to your application for you and then approve the mark for the next step of the registration process. If you do not contact me by then, I will have to issue an Office action requiring these changes.

 

Best Regards,

 

John

 

John Salcido

Trademark Examining Attorney

United States Patent and Trademark Office

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