Examiners Amendment

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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

 

 

 

EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT

 

 

Issue date:  March 11, 2022

 

 

USPTO database searched; no conflicting marks found.  The trademark examining attorney has searched the USPTO database of registered and pending marks and has 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 Amy Brozenic on March 10, 2022, 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 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).

 

AMENDMENT TO IDENTIFICATION OF SERVICES - CLASS 42 ONLY

 

The identification of services is amended to read as follows:

 

International Class 09:            Acceptable as written

 

International Class 35:            Acceptable as written

 

International Class 36:            Acceptable as written

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International Class 42:            Data conversion of computer program data and information for insurance companies, other than physical conversion; software as a service (saas) services, namely, hosting software for use by others for use for administration of financial products, namely, life insurance and annuities; providing online non-downloadable software for providing retirement plan and account information to retirement plan providers, administrators and third party administrators or retirement savings plans; providing online non-downloadable software for retirement plan providers, administrators and third party administrators of retirement savings plans to enable them to determine whether contributions to plans are within the limits of the plans and regulations, to prepare and view business reports and audit reports on participants, and to view and enter data for participant's retirement accounts; Providing temporary use of a non-downloadable web application for managing assets and calculating values of variable annuity products for insurance companies

 

If applicant has questions regarding this Examiner’s Amendment, please telephone or e-mail the assigned trademark examining attorney.  All relevant e-mail communications will be placed in the official application record.

 

/Kara E. Jackson/

Kara E. Jackson

Examining Attorney

Law Office 120

(571)272-4358

Kara.Jackson@uspto.gov

 

 

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

 

USPTO OFFICIAL NOTICE

 

Office Action (Official Letter) has issued

on March 11, 2022 for

U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 97064493

 

A USPTO examining attorney has reviewed your trademark application and issued an Office action.  You may be required to respond to this Office action.  Follow the steps below.

 

(1)  Read the Office action.  This email is NOT the Office action.

 

(2)  Respond to the Office action, if a response is required.  Respond by the deadline using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS).  Your response must be received by the USPTO on or before 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time of the last day of the response period.  Otherwise, your application will be abandoned.  See the Office action itself regarding how to respond.

 

(3)  Direct general questions about using USPTO electronic forms, the USPTO website, the application process, the status of your application, and whether there are outstanding deadlines to the Trademark Assistance Center (TAC).

 

After reading the Office action, address any question(s) regarding the specific content to the USPTO examining attorney identified in the Office action.

 

 

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 to ensure you receive important USPTO notices about your application.

 

·         Beware of trademark-related scams.  Protect yourself from people and companies that may try to take financial advantage of you.  Private companies may call you and pretend to be the USPTO or may send you communications that resemble official USPTO documents to trick you.  We will never request your credit card number or social security number over the phone.  And all official USPTO correspondence will only be emailed from the domain “@uspto.gov.”  Verify the correspondence originated from us by using your Serial Number in our database, TSDR, to confirm that it appears under the “Documents” tab, or contact the Trademark Assistance Center.

 

·         Hiring a U.S.-licensed attorney.  If you do not have an attorney and are not required to have one under the trademark rules, we encourage you to hire a U.S.-licensed attorney specializing in trademark law to help guide you through the registration process.  The USPTO examining attorney is not your attorney and cannot give you legal advice, but rather works for and represents the USPTO in trademark matters.