To: | City of Hope (ipdocket@lw.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88593480 - ACCESSHOPE CITY OF HOPE - 061666-0003 |
Sent: | December 02, 2019 11:19:11 AM |
Sent As: | ecom105@uspto.gov |
Attachments: | Attachment - 1 |
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Office Action (Official Letter) About Applicant’s Trademark Application
U.S. Application Serial No. 88593480
Mark: ACCESSHOPE CITY OF HOPE
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Correspondence Address: 650 TOWN CENTER DRIVE, SUITE 2000
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Applicant: City of Hope
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Reference/Docket No. 061666-0003
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NONFINAL OFFICE ACTION
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: December 02, 2019
Applicant is encouraged to call or email the assigned trademark examining attorney below to resolve the issues in this Office action. Although the USPTO will not accept an email as a response to an Office action, an applicant can communicate by phone or email to agree to a proposed amendment to the application that will immediately place the application in condition for publication, registration, or suspension. See 37 C.F.R. §2.62(c); TMEP §707.
The referenced application has been reviewed by the assigned trademark examining attorney. Applicant must respond timely and completely to the issue(s) below. 15 U.S.C. §1062(b); 37 C.F.R. §§2.62(a), 2.65(a); TMEP §§711, 718.
SEARCH OF OFFICE’S DATABASES OF MARKS
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).
SUMMARY OF ISSUES:
· Amendment to Description of Mark Required
AMENDMENT TO DESCRIPTION OF MARK
The following description is suggested, if accurate:
The mark consists of the words ACCESSHOPE with an arch made up of two curved bands over the first two letters "A" and "C" of the word ACCESS. Below the words ACCESSHOPE and the arch is a single line which is depicted above the words CITY OF HOPE with a shaded square containing three stick figures and depicted to the left of the words CITY OF HOPE. The left and right stick figures are larger in size and appear to be joining hands over the smaller stick figure depicted in the middle between them. A dot is depicted on the bottom right after the words CITY OF HOPE.
Please note that if the dot is not a feature of the mark and represents a bad reproduction of the registration symbol, ®, as shown on the attached screenshot from applicant’s website, applicant must submit a new drawing with the ® symbol deleted from the drawing of the mark; this symbol is not part of the mark and is not registrable. See 37 C.F.R. §2.72; TMEP §807.14(a). Although applicant must delete this matter, applicant may not make any other changes or amendments that would materially alter the drawing of the mark. See 37 C.F.R. §2.72; TMEP §§807.14 et seq. For more information about deleting matter from the drawing, see the Drawing webpage.
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.
Owczarski, Karen
/Karen Estilo Owczarski/
Trademark Attorney
Law Office 105
571-272-3758
karen.owczarski@uspto.gov
RESPONSE GUIDANCE