To: | NCR Corporation (PTOMail.Law@ncr.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88724527 - SIMPLE MADE POSSIBLE - N/A |
Sent: | March 13, 2020 07:14:57 AM |
Sent As: | ecom123@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. 88724527
Mark: SIMPLE MADE POSSIBLE
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Applicant: NCR Corporation
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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 13, 2020
SEARCH OF OFFICE’S DATABASE OF MARKS
The trademark examining attorney searched the USPTO database of registered and pending marks and found no conflicting marks that would bar registration under Trademark Act Section 2(d). 15 U.S.C. §1052(d); TMEP §704.02.
PARTIAL IDENTIFICATION OF SERVICES REQUIREMENT
The wording “and consultation in the field of computers; namely, application development, assessing and evaluating customer requirements including hardware and software” in the identification of services is indefinite and must be clarified to further specify the nature of the services. See 37 C.F.R. §2.32(a)(6); TMEP §1402.01. Applicant must amend this wording to specify the common commercial or generic name of the services. See TMEP §1402.01. If the services have no common commercial or generic name, applicant must describe or explain the nature of the services using clear and succinct language. See id.
Applicant may substitute the following wording, if accurate:
IC 042: Maintenance of computer software; and {applicant must specify the common
commercial name of the services – particularly, the type of consultation, e.g., computer software consultation} in the nature of field of
computers; namely, application development, assessing and evaluating customer requirements including featuring hardware and software
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.
PARTIAL ABANDONMENT ADVISORY
“and consultation in the field of computers; namely, application development, assessing and evaluating customer requirements including hardware and software”.
The application will then proceed with the following goods and/or services in International Class 042 only: “Maintenance of computer software”. See 37 C.F.R. §2.65(a)-(a)(1); TMEP §718.02(a).
RESPONSE GUIDELINES
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.
Radcliff, Brent
/Brent M. Radcliff/
Examining Attorney
Trademark Law Office 123
(571) 270-0855
brent.radcliff@uspto.gov
RESPONSE GUIDANCE