Examiners Amendment

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Office Action (Official Letter) About Applicant’s Trademark Application

EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT

Issue date:  August 03, 2020

USPTO database searched; no conflicting marks found.  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.

Application has been amended as shown below.  As agreed to by Andy Abrams on August 3, 2020, the examining attorney has amended the application as shown below.  Please notify the examining attorney immediately of any objections.  TMEP §707.  Otherwise, no response is required.  Id.  In addition, applicant is advised that amendments to the goods and/or services are permitted only if they clarify or limit them; amendments that add to or broaden the scope of the goods and/or services are not permitted.  37 C.F.R. §2.71(a).

Amended Identification of Services

The identification of services is amended to read as follows:  “Promoting the public awareness of the importance of free and open source software projects, namely, projects relating to software development, to computer system and application development, deployment and management, to connecting, managing, and monitoring microservice environments, and to collaborative code review; Promoting public awareness and the importance of non-proprietary software and open source projects used under agreements meeting certain requirements for distribution and redistribution; Business management and business administration for others in the field of trademarks, namely, trademarks relating to non-proprietary software and open source projects; Business support services, namely, business consulting services regarding the management of trademarks relating to non-proprietary software and open source projects.”  See TMEP §§1402.01, 1402.01(e).

Janet Lee

/Janet H. Lee/

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 124

Phone:  (571) 272-1053

Email:  janet.lee6@uspto.gov

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

USPTO OFFICIAL NOTICE

Office Action (Official Letter) has issued

on August 03, 2020 for

U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 88922688

Your trademark application has been reviewed by a trademark examining attorney.  As part of that review, the assigned attorney has issued an official letter.  Please follow the steps below.

(1)  Read the official letter.  No response is necessary.

(2)  Direct questions about the contents of the Office action to the assigned attorney below. 

Janet Lee

/Janet H. Lee/

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 124

Phone:  (571) 272-1053

Email:  janet.lee6@uspto.gov

Direct questions about navigating USPTO electronic forms, the USPTO website, the application process, the status of your application, and/or whether there are outstanding deadlines or documents related to your file to the Trademark Assistance Center (TAC).

GENERAL GUIDANCE

·       Check the status of your application periodically in the Trademark Status & Document Retrieval (TSDR) database to avoid missing critical deadlines.

·       Update your correspondence email address, if needed, to ensure you receive important USPTO notices about your application.

·       Beware of misleading notices sent by private companies about your application.  Private companies not associated with the USPTO use public information available in trademark registrations to mail and email trademark-related offers and notices – most of which require fees.  All official USPTO correspondence will only be emailed from the domain “@uspto.gov.”