Examiners Amendment

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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

 

 

 

EXAMINER’S AMENDMENT

 

 

Issue date:  May 12, 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 Megan Bradshaw on May 12, 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 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 SERVICES

 

The identification of services is amended to read as follows: 

 

“Retail pharmacy services; Online retail pharmacy services; Mail order pharmacy services; Business administration of pharmacy reimbursement programs and services; Health care utilization and review services; Pharmaceutical cost management services and drug utilization review services; Managed care services, namely, electronic processing of health care information; Consulting services in the cost management of health care; Health and life insurance distribution, namely, providing insurance exchanges in the nature of a marketplace that offers purchasers of health insurance a variety of plans from different insurance providers; Promoting public awareness of issues concerning nutrition, diet, health and the welfare of children; Administration of a discount program for enabling participants to obtain discounts on services through use of a discount membership card; Pharmacy plan cost review; Business management and consultation in the field of benefits eligibility; Healthcare cost review and healthcare cost containment; Formulary administration of health plan covered drug benefits, namely, administration of a list of medications covered by a specific health benefits plan; Arranging of managed care contractual services in the fields of diagnostic imaging, home health care, durable medical equipment, specialty pharmacy, and diagnostic lab services; medical practice management for others; Business and management consulting for healthcare providers and related businesses; Consulting services in the field of patient relationship management for healthcare providers; Consulting in the fields of healthcare operations management and hospital operations management; Healthcare management service organization (MSO) services, namely, providing practice organization, management and administrative support services to individual physicians or small group practices; Managed care services, namely, utilization review and pre-certification services; Total quality management services, namely, business management services for establishing business quality policy and determining business means for implementing those policies to improve customer satisfaction; Business services provided to a network of health care providers, namely, the negotiation and execution of contracts with health care payors; Professional credentialing verification services in the field of healthcare, namely, verifying the skills and knowledge of licensed professionals on behalf of others; Verifying and monitoring the credentials of physicians, nurses and professional healthcare providers for business purposes; Business management and consulting services for the health care industry, namely, customer service, accounting services, and marketing services; Business management and consulting services for the health care industry, namely, providing industry expertise and supplier partnerships; Business services, namely, independent medical management services for self-funded major medical health plans; Cost management for the health benefit plans of others; Management of health care clinics for others; Conducting quality assurance surveys in hospitals to determine service quality; Business services provided to the healthcare industry, namely, the collection, reporting, and analysis of healthcare quality data for business purposes; Collection and analysis of quality metric data for a network of health care providers for business purposes; Customer service management for others; Customer services, namely, responding to customers inquiries for others in the field of healthcare and medical clinics; Medical claims management services, namely, receiving, data entering, and re-pricing of transactions that are originated by physicians, hospitals, and ancillary medical care providers; Collecting and analyzing claims data from healthcare organizations for business purposes; insurance claim auditing services; Providing statistical evaluation of insurance claims performance measures for others; Professional staffing services” in International Class 035.

 

See TMEP §§1402.01, 1402.01(e).

 

 

 

 

/Robert J. Struck/

Robert J. Struck

Trademark Examining Attorney

Law Office 109

Robert.Struck@uspto.gov

571-272-1513

 

 

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

 

USPTO OFFICIAL NOTICE

 

Office Action (Official Letter) has issued

on May 12, 2022 for

U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 97110547

 

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.