To: | Verizon Trademark Services LLC (trademarkatty@verizon.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 90342848 - MAPS - N/A |
Sent: | February 02, 2021 05:21:48 PM |
Sent As: | ecom116@uspto.gov |
Attachments: | Attachment - 1 Attachment - 2 Attachment - 3 Attachment - 4 Attachment - 5 Attachment - 6 |
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Office Action (Official Letter) About Applicant’s Trademark Application
U.S. Application Serial No. 90342848
Mark: MAPS
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Correspondence Address: 1300 I STREET, NW, SUITE 500 EAST
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Applicant: Verizon Trademark Services LLC
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Reference/Docket No. N/A
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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: February 02, 2021
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.
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.
Applicant must disclaim the wording “MAPS” because it is merely descriptive of an ingredient, quality, characteristic, function, feature, purpose, or use of applicant’s goods and/or services. See 15 U.S.C. §1052(e)(1); DuoProSS Meditech Corp. v. Inviro Med. Devices, Ltd., 695 F.3d 1247, 1251, 103 USPQ2d 1753, 1755 (Fed. Cir. 2012); TMEP §§1213, 1213.03(a).
MAP is defined as:
1A diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.
‘a street map’
“map” Lexico (2020) http://www.lexico.com Retrieved February 2, 2021. See attachment.
The wording “MAPS” merely describes the use of the software, which is used for maps, as indicating by the wording “mapping and navigation” in the identification of goods. In addition, the applicant’s website indicates that it provides an app which provide “3D maps”. http://www.verizon.com/support/vz-navigator/ Retrieved February 2, 2021. See attachments.
Applicant may respond to this issue by submitting a disclaimer in the following format:
No claim is made to the exclusive right to use “MAPS” apart from the mark as shown.
For an overview of disclaimers and instructions on how to provide one using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), see the Disclaimer webpage.
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.
/Ellen Awrich/
Trademark Examining Attorney
Law Office 116
571-272-9123
ellen.awrich@uspto.gov
RESPONSE GUIDANCE