Response to Office Action

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PTO- 1957

Approved for use through 11/30/2023. OMB 0651-0050

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless it contains a valid OMB control number

Response to Office Action

To the Commissioner for Trademarks:

Application serial no. 88910822 WALLSTREETBETS(Standard Characters, see http://uspto.report/TM/88910822/mark.png) has been amended as follows:

CLASSIFICATION AND LISTING OF GOODS/SERVICES

Applicant proposes to amend the following:

Current:
Class 042 for Hosting an online website community for users to share information, films, photos, audio and video content, including for the purposes of receiving feedback from their peers and others, and to engage in social networking; Computer services, namely, creating virtual communities for registered users to participate in discussions, get feedback from their peers, and engage in social networking and communication; Computer services, namely, hosting electronic facilities for others for organizing and conducting interactive discussions via communication networks; Computer services, namely, creating an on-line virtual environment for entertainment purposes; Application service provider (ASP) featuring software to enable or facilitate the uploading, downloading, streaming, posting, displaying, blogging, linking, modifying, and sharing electronic media and information over communication networks; Providing online facilities for others featuring technology that enables online users to create personal profiles featuring social information and to transfer and share such information among multiple online facilities; Providing information from searchable indexes and databases of information, including text, electronic documents, databases, graphics, photographic images and audio visual information, on computer and communication networks; Computer services in the nature of customized online pages featuring user-defined or specified information, personal profiles, audio, video, photographic images, text, graphics and data; Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for sending electronic message alerts, and sending and receiving electronic messages via a global computer network; Platform as a service (PAAS) services featuring technology that allows individuals to create and manage their online presences and engage in social networking and communication; Providing online facilities for others that give users the ability to upload, modify and share audio, video, photographic images, text, graphics and data; Operating search engines; Computer services, namely, providing interactive online facilities featuring technology that allows users to manage their online social networking communication and collaboration accounts; Providing online non-downloadable software for modifying the appearance and enabling transmission of audio, video, photographic images, text, graphics and data; File sharing services, namely, providing online facilities featuring technology enabling users to upload and download electronic files; Providing online non-downloadable software for managing social networking content, interacting with a virtual community, and transmission of images, audio, audio-visual and video content, photographs, videos, data, text, messages, comments, advertisements, media advertising communications and information; Computer services, namely, creating a virtual community for registered users to share, view, subscribe to and interact with images, audiovisual and video content and related data and information; Providing non-downloadable software that gives users the ability to upload, edit, and share images, videos, audio and audio-visual content, text, graphics and data; Providing interactive entertainment software for sharing digital images, photos, text, graphics, music, audio, video clips, and multimedia content
Filing Basis: Section 1(a), Use in Commerce: The applicant is using the mark in commerce, or the applicant's related company or licensee is using the mark in commerce, on or in connection with the identified goods and/or services. 15 U.S.C. Section 1051(a), as amended. The mark was first used at least as early as 01/31/2012 and first used in commerce at least as early as 01/31/2012 , and is now in use in such commerce.


Proposed:

Tracked Text Description: Hosting an online website community for users to share information, films, photos, audio and video content, including for the purposes of receiving feedback from their peers and others, and to engage in social networking; Computer services, namely, creating virtual communities for registered users to participate in discussions, get feedback from their peers, and engage in social networking and communication; Computer services, namely, hosting electronic facilities for others for organizing and conducting interactive discussions via communication networks; Computer services, namely, creating an on-line virtual environment for entertainment purposes; Computer services, namely, creating an on-line virtual environment for registered users to participate in discussions, get feedback from their peers, and engage in social networking and communication for entertainment purposes; Application service provider (ASP) featuring software to enable or facilitate the uploading, downloading, streaming, posting, displaying, blogging, linking, modifying, and sharing electronic media and information over communication networks; Providing online facilities for others featuring technology that enables online users to create personal profiles featuring social information and to transfer and share such information among multiple online facilities; Providing information from searchable indexes and databases of information, including text, electronic documents, databases, graphics, photographic images and audio visual information, on computer and communication networks; Computer services in the nature of customized online pages featuring user-defined or specified information, personal profiles, audio, video, photographic images, text, graphics and data; Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for sending electronic message alerts, and sending and receiving electronic messages via a global computer network; Platform as a service (PAAS) services featuring technology that allows individuals to create and manage their online presences and engage in social networking and communication; Platform as a service (PAAS) services featuring computer software platforms featuring technology that allows individuals to create and manage their online presences and engage in social networking and communication; Providing online facilities for others that give users the ability to upload, modify and share audio, video, photographic images, text, graphics and data; Operating search engines; Operating search engines, namely, providing Internet search engines; Computer services, namely, providing interactive online facilities featuring technology that allows users to manage their online social networking communication and collaboration accounts; Providing online non-downloadable software for modifying the appearance and enabling transmission of audio, video, photographic images, text, graphics and data; File sharing services, namely, providing online facilities featuring technology enabling users to upload and download electronic files; Providing online non-downloadable software for managing social networking content, interacting with a virtual community, and transmission of images, audio, audio-visual and video content, photographs, videos, data, text, messages, comments, advertisements, media advertising communications and information; Computer services, namely, creating a virtual community for registered users to share, view, subscribe to and interact with images, audiovisual and video content and related data and information; Providing non-downloadable software that gives users the ability to upload, edit, and share images, videos, audio and audio-visual content, text, graphics and data; Providing online non-downloadable software that gives users the ability to upload, edit, and share images, videos, audio and audio-visual content, text, graphics and data; Providing interactive entertainment software for sharing digital images, photos, text, graphics, music, audio, video clips, and multimedia content; Providing interactive online non-downloadable entertainment software for sharing digital images, photos, text, graphics, music, audio, video clips, and multimedia contentClass 042 for Hosting an online website community for users to share information, films, photos, audio and video content, including for the purposes of receiving feedback from their peers and others, and to engage in social networking; Computer services, namely, creating virtual communities for registered users to participate in discussions, get feedback from their peers, and engage in social networking and communication; Computer services, namely, hosting electronic facilities for others for organizing and conducting interactive discussions via communication networks; Computer services, namely, creating an on-line virtual environment for registered users to participate in discussions, get feedback from their peers, and engage in social networking and communication for entertainment purposes; Application service provider (ASP) featuring software to enable or facilitate the uploading, downloading, streaming, posting, displaying, blogging, linking, modifying, and sharing electronic media and information over communication networks; Providing online facilities for others featuring technology that enables online users to create personal profiles featuring social information and to transfer and share such information among multiple online facilities; Providing information from searchable indexes and databases of information, including text, electronic documents, databases, graphics, photographic images and audio visual information, on computer and communication networks; Computer services in the nature of customized online pages featuring user-defined or specified information, personal profiles, audio, video, photographic images, text, graphics and data; Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for sending electronic message alerts, and sending and receiving electronic messages via a global computer network; Platform as a service (PAAS) services featuring computer software platforms featuring technology that allows individuals to create and manage their online presences and engage in social networking and communication; Providing online facilities for others that give users the ability to upload, modify and share audio, video, photographic images, text, graphics and data; Operating search engines, namely, providing Internet search engines; Computer services, namely, providing interactive online facilities featuring technology that allows users to manage their online social networking communication and collaboration accounts; Providing online non-downloadable software for modifying the appearance and enabling transmission of audio, video, photographic images, text, graphics and data; File sharing services, namely, providing online facilities featuring technology enabling users to upload and download electronic files; Providing online non-downloadable software for managing social networking content, interacting with a virtual community, and transmission of images, audio, audio-visual and video content, photographs, videos, data, text, messages, comments, advertisements, media advertising communications and information; Computer services, namely, creating a virtual community for registered users to share, view, subscribe to and interact with images, audiovisual and video content and related data and information; Providing online non-downloadable software that gives users the ability to upload, edit, and share images, videos, audio and audio-visual content, text, graphics and data; Providing interactive online non-downloadable entertainment software for sharing digital images, photos, text, graphics, music, audio, video clips, and multimedia content
Filing Basis: Section 1(a), Use in Commerce: The applicant is using the mark in commerce, or the applicant's related company or licensee is using the mark in commerce, on or in connection with the identified goods and/or services. 15 U.S.C. Section 1051(a), as amended. The mark was first used at least as early as 01/31/2012 and first used in commerce at least as early as 01/31/2012 , and is now in use in such commerce.
Applicant hereby submits one(or more) specimen(s) for Class 042. The specimen(s) submitted consists of The attached specimens are a true copy of the specimens that were originally submitted with the application..
"The substitute (or new, or originally submitted, if appropriate) specimen(s) was/were in use in commerce at least as early as the filing date of the application"[for an application based on Section 1(a), Use in Commerce] OR "The substitute (or new, or originally submitted, if appropriate) specimen(s) was/were in use in commerce prior either to the filing of the Amendment to Allege Use or expiration of the filing deadline for filing a Statement of Use" [for an application based on Section 1(b) Intent-to-Use]. OR "The attached specimen is a true copy of the specimen that was originally submitted with the application, amendment to allege use, or statement of use" [for an illegible specimen].
Original PDF file:
SPU0-1351809224-202101271 82506890784_._ccessed_at_ www.reddit.com_r_wallstre etbets__on_11_May_2020__.pdf
Converted PDF file(s) ( 1 page) Specimen File1
Original PDF file:
SPU0-1-1351809224-2021012 7182506890784_._at_www.re ddit.com_r_wallstreetbets _wiki_faq_on_11_May_2020_ _.pdf
Converted PDF file(s) ( 1 page) Specimen File1

Webpage URL: http://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/
Webpage Date of Access: 05/11/2020
Correspondence Information (current):
      THOMAS VIGDAL
      PRIMARY EMAIL FOR CORRESPONDENCE: tom.vigdal@reddit.com
      SECONDARY EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) (COURTESY COPIES): irena.dotcheva@reddit.com
Correspondence Information (proposed):
      Thomas Vigdal
      PRIMARY EMAIL FOR CORRESPONDENCE: tom.vigdal@reddit.com
      SECONDARY EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) (COURTESY COPIES): irena.dotcheva@reddit.com

Requirement for Email and Electronic Filing: I understand that a valid email address must be maintained by the owner/holder and the owner's/holder's attorney, if appointed, and that all official trademark correspondence must be submitted via the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS).

SIGNATURE(S)
Declaration Signature

DECLARATION: The signatory being warned that willful false statements and the like are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, and that such willful false statements and the like may jeopardize the validity of the application or submission or any registration resulting therefrom, declares that, if the applicant submitted the application or allegation of use (AOU) unsigned, all statements in the application or AOU and this submission based on the signatory's own knowledge are true, and all statements in the application or AOU and this submission made on information and belief are believed to be true.

STATEMENTS FOR UNSIGNED SECTION 1(a) APPLICATION/AOU: If the applicant filed an unsigned application under 15 U.S.C. §1051(a) or AOU under 15 U.S.C. §1051(c), the signatory additionally believes that: the applicant is the owner of the mark sought to be registered; the mark is in use in commerce and was in use in commerce as of the filing date of the application or AOU on or in connection with the goods/services/collective membership organization in the application or AOU; the original specimen(s), if applicable, shows the mark in use in commerce as of the filing date of the application or AOU on or in connection with the goods/services/collective membership organization in the application or AOU; for a collective trademark, collective service mark, collective membership mark application, or certification mark application, the applicant is exercising legitimate control over the use of the mark in commerce and was exercising legitimate control over the use of the mark in commerce as of the filing date of the application or AOU; for a certification mark application, the applicant is not engaged in the production or marketing of the goods/services to which the mark is applied, except to advertise or promote recognition of the certification program or of the goods/services that meet the certification standards of the applicant. To the best of the signatory's knowledge and belief, no other persons, except, if applicable, authorized users, members, and/or concurrent users, have the right to use the mark in commerce, either in the identical form or in such near resemblance as to be likely, when used on or in connection with the goods/services/collective membership organization of such other persons, to cause confusion or mistake, or to deceive.

STATEMENTS FOR UNSIGNED SECTION 1(b)/SECTION 44 APPLICATION AND FOR SECTION 66(a) COLLECTIVE/CERTIFICATION MARK APPLICATION: If the applicant filed an unsigned application under 15 U.S.C. §§ 1051(b), 1126(d), and/or 1126(e), or filed a collective/certification mark application under 15 U.S.C. §1141f(a), the signatory additionally believes that: for a trademark or service mark application, the applicant is entitled to use the mark in commerce on or in connection with the goods/services specified in the application; the applicant has a bona fide intention to use the mark in commerce and had a bona fide intention to use the mark in commerce as of the application filing date; for a collective trademark, collective service mark, collective membership mark, or certification mark application, the applicant has a bona fide intention, and is entitled, to exercise legitimate control over the use of the mark in commerce and had a bona fide intention, and was entitled, to exercise legitimate control over the use of the mark in commerce as of the application filing date; the signatory is properly authorized to execute the declaration on behalf of the applicant; for a certification mark application, the applicant will not engage in the production or marketing of the goods/services to which the mark is applied, except to advertise or promote recognition of the certification program or of the goods/services that meet the certification standards of the applicant. To the best of the signatory's knowledge and belief, no other persons, except, if applicable, authorized users, members, and/or concurrent users, have the right to use the mark in commerce, either in the identical form or in such near resemblance as to be likely, when used on or in connection with the goods/services/collective membership organization of such other persons, to cause confusion or mistake, or to deceive.

Signature: /Thomas Vigdal/      Date: 02/02/2021
Signatory's Name: Thomas Vigdal
Signatory's Position: Attorney of Record
Signature method: Sent to third party for signature

Response Signature
Signature: /Thomas Vigdal/     Date: 02/03/2021
Signatory's Name: Thomas Vigdal
Signatory's Position: Senior Director, Legal at Reddit, Inc.
Signature method: Sent to third party for signature

The signatory has confirmed that he/she is a U.S.-licensed attorney who is an active member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of a U.S. state (including the District of Columbia and any U.S. Commonwealth or territory); and he/she is currently the owner's/holder's attorney or an associate thereof; and to the best of his/her knowledge, if prior to his/her appointment another U.S.-licensed attorney not currently associated with his/her company/firm previously represented the owner/holder in this matter: the owner/holder has revoked their power of attorney by a signed revocation or substitute power of attorney with the USPTO; the USPTO has granted that attorney's withdrawal request; the owner/holder has filed a power of attorney appointing him/her in this matter; or the owner's/holder's appointed U.S.-licensed attorney has filed a power of attorney appointing him/her as an associate attorney in this matter.

Mailing Address:    THOMAS VIGDAL
   
   
   548 MARKET ST, # 16093
   SAN FRANCISCO, California 94104
Mailing Address:    Thomas Vigdal
   548 MARKET ST, # 16093
   SAN FRANCISCO, California 94104
        
Serial Number: 88910822
Internet Transmission Date: Wed Feb 03 13:08:55 ET 2021
TEAS Stamp: USPTO/ROA-XXX.XXX.X.XXX-2021020313085567
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