To: | Sisu Data, Inc. (trademarks@fenwick.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88625519 - SISU - 35012-00070 |
Sent: | December 20, 2019 10:32:39 AM |
Sent As: | ecom104@uspto.gov |
Attachments: | Attachment - 1 Attachment - 2 Attachment - 3 Attachment - 4 Attachment - 5 Attachment - 6 Attachment - 7 Attachment - 8 Attachment - 9 Attachment - 10 Attachment - 11 |
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Office Action (Official Letter) About Applicant’s Trademark Application
U.S. Application Serial No. 88625519
Mark: SISU
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Applicant: Sisu Data, Inc.
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Reference/Docket No. 35012-00070
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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 20, 2019
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).
Telephone or E-mail Response Suggested
Significance of Mark
To permit proper examination of the application, applicant must provide the following information:
(1) Explain whether the wording in the mark “SISU” has any meaning or significance in the industry in which the goods and/or services are manufactured/provided, any meaning or significance as applied to applicant’s goods and/or services, or if such wording is a term of art within applicant’s industry.
(2) Explain whether this wording identifies a geographic place or has any meaning in a foreign language.
(3) Submit an English translation of all foreign wording in a mark and a transliteration (the phonetic spelling of the pronunciation, in Latin characters) of all non-Latin characters in a mark. If the wording does not have meaning in a foreign language, applicant should so specify.
The format for an English translation: “The English translation of “SISU” is “strength of will; determination; perseverance.”
The format for when there is no English translation: “The wording “SISU” has no meaning in a foreign language.”
See 37 C.F.R. §§2.32(a)(9)-(a)(10), 2.61(b); TMEP §§809-809.03, 814.
Failure to comply with a request for information is grounds for refusing registration. In re Harley, 119 USPQ2d 1755, 1757-58 (TTAB 2016); TMEP §814.
Identification of Goods/Recitation of Services
Class 9: Downloadable software for {specify purpose/function of the software} for use in the fields of big data, data analytics, operational analytics, and machine learning; downloadable computer software platforms that provide a dashboard user interface for tracking and monitoring data changes, detecting outliers, and continuous and point-in-time data analytics; downloadable computer software platforms for providing a data and analytics infrastructure; downloadable software for machine learning and making personalized recommendations; downloadable computer software for analyzing large scale data and diagnosing changes in metrics; downloadable computer software platforms for data mining, data analytics, data sharing, data processing, data visualization, and data collection; downloadable computer software for the collection, analysis, editing, organizing, modifying, book marking, transmission, storage, and sharing of data and information, and generating reports based on said data and information; downloadable computer operational analytics platforms for analyzing and diagnosing changes occurring within data; downloadable computer software platforms for securely connecting to data warehouses and analyzing the effect of different variables on key performance indicators; operating platform comprised of data connectors, transceivers, networks, and gateways for the collection, query, analysis, sharing, interpretation, and management of data; analytics operating platform comprised of computer networking hardware and peripherals, transceivers, and gateway routers in the nature of computer control hardware, all for the collection, query, analysis, sharing, interpretation, and management of data; computer hardware and peripherals;
Class 42: Platform as a service (PaaS) services featuring computer software platforms for {specify purpose/function of the software} for use in the fields of big data, data analytics, operational analytics, and machine learning; platform as a service (PaaS) services featuring software platforms for providing a dashboard user interface for tracking and monitoring data changes, detecting outliers, and continuous and point-in-time data analytics; platform as a service (PaaS) services featuring software platforms for providing a data and analytics infrastructure; platform as a service (PaaS) services featuring computer software platforms for machine learning and making personalized recommendations; platform as a service (PaaS) services featuring computer software platforms for analyzing large scale data and diagnosing changes in metrics; platform as a service (PaaS) services featuring computer software platforms for data mining, data analytics, data sharing, data processing, data visualization, and data collection; platform as a service (PaaS) services featuring computer software platforms for securely connecting to data warehouses and analyzing the effect of different variables on key performance indicators; platform as a service (PaaS) services featuring operational analytics platforms for analyzing and diagnosing changes occurring within data; platform as a service (PaaS) services featuring computer software platforms for the collection, analysis, editing, organizing, modifying, book marking, transmission, storage, and sharing of data and information, and generating reports based on said data and information; data mining; computer software design and development; technical support services for computer software; consulting, advisory, and information services relating to all of the aforesaid services.
Class 35 is acceptable as written.
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.
Contact Information
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.
Katina J. Joiner
/Katina J. Joiner/
Trademark Examining Attorney
Law Office 104
571-272-8889 (Office)
571-273-8889 (Fax)
katina.jackson@uspto.gov
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