To: | ExlService Holdings, Inc. (ptodocket@arelaw.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88744593 - EXL PAYMENTOR - 33071/260 |
Sent: | March 25, 2020 11:15:40 PM |
Sent As: | ecom104@uspto.gov |
Attachments: | Attachment - 1 Attachment - 2 |
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Office Action (Official Letter) About Applicant’s Trademark Application
U.S. Application Serial No. 88744593
Mark: EXL PAYMENTOR
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Correspondence Address: AMSTER, ROTHSTEIN & EBENSTEIN LLP
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Applicant: ExlService Holdings, Inc.
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Reference/Docket No. 33071/260
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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 25, 2020
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, 718.03.
AMENDED IDENTIFICATION REQUIRED – CLASSES 35 AND 42
As set forth more fully below, portions of the identification of services in International Classes 35 and 42 are unacceptable as indefinite. 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.
International Class 35
International Class 42
Applicant adopt the following identification of services, if accurate:
INTERNATIONAL CLASS 35: Business consulting and advisory services with respect to business management, risk assessment, business efficiency optimization, and development of business opportunities; business process outsourcing services, namely, services with respect to the outsourcing of business management, business risk assessment, business efficiency optimization, and the development of business opportunities; business information management, namely, gathering, organizing and delivering information with respect to business management, business risk assessment, business efficiency optimization, and development of business opportunities; business administration; business auditing with respect to finances, human resources, and the provision of goods and services; business analytics, namely, the quantitative and qualitative analysis of data with respect to business management, business risk assessment, business efficiency optimization, and development of business opportunities; and business research and analysis services, namely, gathering, organizing and delivering information with respect to the quantitative and qualitative analysis of data with respect to business management, business risk assessment, business efficiency optimization, and development of business opportunities; all in the fields of insurance, banking, financial services, health care, information services, securities, telecommunications, human resources, accounting, technology, professional services, transportation and logistics, public utilities, and travel services; providing office functions for managed care and healthcare offices in the nature of submitting and exchanging medical requests and authorizations.
INTERNATIONAL CLASS 36: Financial research; financial analysis; financial analysis consulting; financial planning; and financial analysis and management advisory services all in the fields of insurance, banking, financial services, subrogation, debt recovery, securities, accounting, risk management, benefits, business interruption, and loss determination.
INTERNATIONAL CLASS 42: Providing temporary use of non-downloadable computer software for use in the automation of business process outsourcing, managing business consulting and advisory services, business information management, business administration, business auditing, tracking business research and analysis services, robotic automated artificial intelligence, and content extraction tools, all in the fields of insurance, banking, financial services, subrogation, health care, information services, securities, telecommunications, human resources, accounting, technology, professional services, transportation and logistics, public utilities, travel services, care management, and medical record organization.
MULTI-CLASS APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
(1) List the goods and/or services by their international class number in consecutive numerical order, starting with the lowest numbered class.
(2) Submit a filing fee for each international class not covered by the fee(s) already paid (view the USPTO’s current fee schedule). The application identifies goods and/or services that are classified in at least 4 classes; however, applicant submitted a fee(s) sufficient for only 3 class(es). Applicant must either submit the filing fees for the classes not covered by the submitted fees or restrict the application to the number of classes covered by the fees already paid.
See 37 C.F.R. §2.86(a); TMEP §§1403.01, 1403.02(c).
For an overview of the requirements for a Section 1(b) multiple-class application and how to satisfy the requirements online using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) form, see the Multiple-class Application webpage.
In response to this Office action, applicant may present arguments in support of registration by addressing the issue of the potential conflict between applicant’s mark and the mark in the referenced application. Applicant’s election not to submit arguments at this time in no way limits applicant’s right to address this issue later if a refusal under Section 2(d) issues.
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.
/Verna B. Ririe/
Trademark Examining Attorney
Law Office 104
(571) 272-9310
verna.ririe@uspto.gov
RESPONSE GUIDANCE