To: | Strategic Wealth Designers (alichy@lichylaw.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88628895 - RETIREMENT PLANNING UNIVERSITY - N/A |
Sent: | March 02, 2020 05:19:38 PM |
Sent As: | ecom107@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. 88628895
Mark: RETIREMENT PLANNING UNIVERSITY
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Correspondence Address:
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Applicant: Strategic Wealth Designers
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Reference/Docket No. N/A
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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: March 02, 2020
This Office action is in response to applicant’s communication filed on January 27, 2020. The Section 2(e)(1) refusal is withdrawn. However, applicant did not address the specimen refusal. This requirement is continued and maintained so that the following new issue can be raised.
Disclaimer Requirement
This wording appears in applicant’s specimen. For example, the first page of applicant’s specimen indicates that it provides “An Educational Retirement Planning Course for Adults”. Pages two and three of the specimen indicates that attendants can avoid retirement planning mistakes and build a plan for retirement because the course focuses on retirement planning. Therefore, the wording merely describes the subject matter of applicant’s services.
Applicant may respond to this issue by submitting a disclaimer in the following format:
No claim is made to the exclusive right to use “RETIREMENT PLANNING” apart from the mark as shown.
For an overview of disclaimers and instructions on how to provide one using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), see the Disclaimer webpage.
The USPTO does not accept emails as responses to Office actions; however, emails can be used for informal communications and are included in the application record. See 37 C.F.R. §§2.62(c), 2.191; TMEP §§304.01-.02, 709.04-.05.
How to respond. Click to file a response to this nonfinal Office action.
/Julie Thomas/
Trademark Examining Attorney
Law Office 107
Phone: 571-272-1582
Email: julie.thomas@uspto.gov
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