Examiners Amendment

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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

 

 

 

EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT

 

 

Issue date:  May 28, 2021

 

 

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 the applicant’s attorney, Pollie Gautsch, on May 28, 2021, 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).

 

IDENTIFICATION OF GOODS

 

In Class 9, the identification of goods is amended to read as follows: 

 

Downloadable software for use in providing financial services, namely, contactless transactions between merchants and customers, mobile payments, contactless peer to peer transactions, mobile sales, and lending services; Downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application for the processing and transmission of payments from mobile wallets, prepaid debit and reward cards, blockchain financial products, open loop payout cards, credit cards, stable coins, QR codes and transaction processing terminals

 

See TMEP §§1402.01, 1402.01(e).

 

DISCLAIMER

 

The following disclaimer statement is added to the record:

 

            No claim is made to the exclusive right to use “INSTANT SETTLEMENT NETWORK” apart from the mark as shown.

 

See 15 U.S.C. §1056(a); TMEP §§1213, 1213.08(a)(i).

 

 

APPLICATION BASIS

 

The application basis is amended to Section 1(b) of the Trademark Act, 15 U.S.C. §1051(b).  This will later necessitate additional fee(s) and filing requirements, including a specimen.

 

 

 

 

 

/Esther A. Belenker/

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 111

(571) 272-9125

Fax:  (571) 273-9125

esther.belenker@uspto.gov

 

 

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

 

USPTO OFFICIAL NOTICE

 

Office Action (Official Letter) has issued

on May 28, 2021 for

U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 90471064

 

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. 

 

/Esther A. Belenker/

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 111

(571) 272-9125

Fax:  (571) 273-9125

esther.belenker@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.”