United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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

 

 

 

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:  August 03, 2021

 

The assigned examining attorney has reviewed the referenced application and determines as follows:

No Conflicting Marks

The Office records have been searched and no similar registered or pending mark has been found that would bar registration under Trademark Act Section 2(d), 15 U.S.C. §1052(d). TMEP §704.02.

Summary of Issues Below:

(1)   Amend the identification of goods/services

(2)   Examiner’s amendment encouraged

 

Identification of Goods/Services

 

Applicant’s description of goods/services is unacceptable because it is indefinite.  §1402.1. 

 

Applicant’s Current Identification Of Goods/Services

 

Class 011:  Air purifier, air purifier replacement filters and ac filters

 

Applicant must clarify the identification of goods/services as follows:  See TMEP §1402.01.

 

 

(1)   The abbreviation “ac” should be clarified to explain the nature of the goods, e.g., “air conditioning”

 

 

Suggested Acceptable Identification Of Goods/Services

 

Applicant is encouraged to adopt the suggested language, if accurate. 

 

 

Class 011:  Air purifier, air purifier replacement filters and air conditioning filters

 

Please Review The ID Manual For Guidance

 

For assistance with identifying and classifying goods and/or services in trademark applications, please see the online searchable Manual of Acceptable Identifications of Goods and Services at http://tess2.gov.uspto.report/netahtml/tidm.html.

 

Scope Advisory

 

Please note that, while the identification of goods may be amended to clarify or limit the goods, adding to the goods or broadening the scope of the goods is not permitted.  37 C.F.R. §2.71(a); TMEP §1402.06.  Therefore, applicant may not amend the identification to include goods that are not within the scope of the goods set forth in the present identification.

 

 

 

 

Examiner’s Amendment

 

Applicant is encouraged to contact the examining attorney to prepare an examiner’s amendment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to respond.  Click to file a response to this nonfinal Office action.    

 

 

/Nakia D. Henry/

Trademark Attorney (Law Office 129)

Phone:  (571) 272-7208

Fax:  (571) 273-7208

E-mail:  nakia.henry@uspto.gov

 

 

RESPONSE GUIDANCE

• Missing the response deadline to this letter will cause the application to abandon.  A response or notice of appeal must be received by the USPTO before midnight Eastern Time of the last day of the response period.  TEAS and ESTTA maintenance or unforeseen circumstances could affect an applicant’s ability to timely respond.  

 

• Responses signed by an unauthorized party are not accepted and can cause the application to abandon.  If applicant does not have an attorney, the response must be signed by the individual applicant, all joint applicants, or someone with legal authority to bind a juristic applicant.  If applicant has an attorney, the response must be signed by the attorney.

 

• If needed, find contact information for the supervisor of the office or unit listed in the signature block.

 

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

 

USPTO OFFICIAL NOTICE

 

Office Action (Official Letter) has issued

on August 03, 2021 for

U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 90642279

 

Your trademark application has been reviewed by a trademark examining attorney.  As part of that review, the assigned attorney has issued an official letter that you must respond to by the specified deadline or your application will be abandoned.  Please follow the steps below.

 

(1)  Read the official letter.

 

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

 

 

/Nakia D. Henry/

Trademark Attorney (Law Office 129)

Phone:  (571) 272-7208

Fax:  (571) 273-7208

E-mail:  nakia.henry@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).

 

(3)  Respond within 6 months (or earlier, if required in the Office action) from August 03, 2021, using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS).  The response must be received by the USPTO before midnight Eastern Time of the last day of the response period.  See the Office action for more information about how to respond

 

 

 

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.”