To: | The Liquor Co. Authentic Spirits, LLC (ipdocket@weintraubgroup.com) |
Subject: | U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 90543998 - ARAK AL ASSI - KAA-100-T2 |
Sent: | September 22, 2021 09:05:07 PM |
Sent As: | ecom106@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. 90543998
Mark: ARAK AL ASSI
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Correspondence Address: 24901 NORTHWESTERN HWY., SUITE 311
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Applicant: The Liquor Co. Authentic Spirits, LLC
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Reference/Docket No. KAA-100-T2
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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: September 22, 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.
GENERAL SEARCH OF REGISTERED AND PENDING MARKS
DISCLAIMER
The attached evidence from online dictionaries shows this wording means “any of various alcoholic liquors of the Middle East, distilled from grapes, raisins, or dates and flavored with anise.” Thus, the wording merely describes applicant’s goods and/or services because it describes a specific type of distilled spirit.
Applicant may respond to this issue by submitting a disclaimer in the following format:
No claim is made to the exclusive right to use “ARAK” 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.
To permit proper examination of the application, applicant must provide the following information:
(1) Explain whether the wording “AL ASSI” in the mark has any meaning or significance in the industry in which the goods and/or services are manufactured/provided, any meaning or significance as applied to applicant’s goods and/or services, or if such wording is a term of art within applicant’s industry.
(2) Explain whether this wording identifies a geographic place or has any meaning in a foreign language.
(3) Submit an English translation of all foreign wording in a mark and a transliteration (the phonetic spelling of the pronunciation, in Latin characters) of all non-Latin characters in a mark. If the wording does not have meaning in a foreign language, applicant should so specify.
The format for an English translation and transliteration: The English translation of “AL ASSI” is “<SPECIFY TRANSLATION>”.
The format for when there is no English translation or meaning of the transliteration: The wording “AL ASSI” has no meaning in a foreign language.
See 37 C.F.R. §§2.32(a)(9)-(a)(10), 2.61(b); TMEP §§809-809.03, 814.
Failure to comply with a request for information is grounds for refusing registration. In re Harley, 119 USPQ2d 1755, 1757-58 (TTAB 2016); TMEP §814.
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/Sophia S. Kim/
Sophia S. Kim
Senior Attorney
Law Office 106
571-272-9178
sophia.kim@uspto.gov
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