To: | Atlas Sound, LP (terrell.hunsinger@mitekusa.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88643219 - THE MASKER - N/A |
Sent: | January 16, 2020 12:55:35 PM |
Sent As: | ecom110@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. 88643219
Mark: THE MASKER
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Applicant: Atlas Sound, LP
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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: January 16, 2020
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.
DUPLICATE APPLICATION
Applicant may respond to this refusal by abandoning the application or surrendering the registration. To expressly abandon the application, an applicant should use the TEAS Request for Express Abandonment (Withdrawal) of Application form; to surrender the registration, the TEAS Surrender of registration for cancellation form should be used.
How to respond. Click to file a response to this nonfinal Office action.
/Khouri, Sani/
Trademark Examining Attorney
Law Office 110
United States Patent and Trademark Office
(571) 272-5884
sani.khouri@uspto.gov
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