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`Subject:
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`Sanyo E&E Corporation (PTOMailSanDiegoNorth@foley.com)
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`TRADEMARK APPLICATION NO. 76638279 - QUICK CHILL - 055138-0123
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`12/11/2005 8:32:37 AM
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`ECOM102@USPTO.GOV
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`Attachments:
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`Attachment - 1
`Attachment - 2
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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`(cid:160) (cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) SERIAL NO:(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)
`(cid:160) (cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)
`(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) APPLICANT:(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)
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`Sanyo E&E Corporation
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`76/638279
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`(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS:
`(cid:160) Stacy L. Taylor
`(cid:160) Foley & Lardner LLP
`(cid:160) 11250 El Camino Real, Suite 200
`(cid:160) San Diego CA 92138
`(cid:160)
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`QUICK CHILL
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`*76638279*
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`RETURN ADDRESS:(cid:160)
`Commissioner for Trademarks
`P.O. Box 1451
`Alexandria, VA 22313-1451
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`Please provide in all correspondence:
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`(cid:160)1
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`.(cid:160) Filing date, serial number, mark and
`applicant's name.
`(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)
`2.(cid:160) Date of this Office Action.
`3.(cid:160) Examining Attorney's name and
`(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) Law Office number.
`4. Your
`telephone number and e-mail
`address.
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`(cid:160) (cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) MARK:(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)
`(cid:160) (cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) CORRESPONDENT’S REFERENCE/DOCKET NO :(cid:160)(cid:160) 055138-0123
`(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) CORRESPONDENT EMAIL ADDRESS:(cid:160)(cid:160) PTOMailSanDiegoNorth@foley.com
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`(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)
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`ESPONSE TIME LIMIT:(cid:160) TO AVOID ABANDONMENT, THE OFFICE MUST RECEIVE A PROPER RESPONSE TO THIS OFFICE
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`OFFICE ACTION
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`(cid:160)R
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`ACTION WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF THE MAILING OR E-MAILING DATE.(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)
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`Serial Number(cid:160) 76/638279
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`The assigned trademark examining attorney has reviewed the referenced application and has determined the following:
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`(cid:160)S
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`earch Results
`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).(cid:160) TMEP §704.02.
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`(cid:160)I
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`dentification of Goods
`The wording “Electric switches and circuits for controlling the operation of refrigerator compressors” in the identification of goods is
`unacceptable as indefinite.(cid:160) The applicant must amend the identification to further specify the commercial nature and/or type of the goods.(cid:160) For
`example, the wording “Components of Refrigerators, freezers, and refrigerated cabinets for storage of food and beverages, namely Electric
`switches and circuits for controlling the operation of refrigerator compressors” is acceptable and may be adopted, if accurate. (cid:160) TMEP §1402.01.
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`lease 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.(cid:160) 37 C.F.R. §2.71(a); TMEP §1402.06.(cid:160) 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.
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`isclaimer Required
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`Applicant must disclaim the descriptive wording “CHILL” apart from the mark as shown because it merely describes features of Applicant’s
`goods, namely “Electric switches and circuits for controlling the operation of refrigerator compressors. (cid:160) The term “chill” identifies features
`and/or functions of Applicant’s goods. (cid:160) The term “chill” is function and/or feature of refrigerators. (cid:160) A dictionary definition of this term is
`attached to this office action in support of this requirement.(cid:160) Trademark Act Section 6, 15 U.S.C. §1056; TMEP §§1213 and 1213.03(a).
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`(cid:160)T
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`he Office can require an applicant to disclaim exclusive rights to an unregistrable part of a mark, rather than refuse registration of the entire
`mark.(cid:160) Trademark Act Section 6(a), 15 U.S.C. §1056(a).(cid:160) Under Trademark Act Section 2(e), 15 U.S.C. §1052(e), the Office can refuse
`registration of the entire mark where it is determined that the entire mark is merely descriptive, deceptively misdescriptive, or primarily
`geographically descriptive of the goods.(cid:160) Thus, the Office may require the disclaimer of a portion of a mark which, when used in connection with
`the goods or services, is merely descriptive, deceptively misdescriptive, primarily geographically descriptive, or otherwise unregistrable (e.g.,
`generic).(cid:160) TMEP §1213.03(a).(cid:160) If an applicant does not comply with a disclaimer requirement, the Office may refuse registration of the entire
`mark.(cid:160) TMEP §1213.01(b).
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`(cid:160)S
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`pecimen(cid:160) Unacceptable-Substitute Required
`Applicant must submit (1) a substitute specimen showing the mark as it is used in commerce on the goods or on packaging for the goods, and (2)
`a statement that “the substitute specimen was in use in commerce at least as early as the filing date of the application,” verified with a notarized
`affidavit or a signed declaration under 37 C.F.R. §2.20.(cid:160) 37 C.F.R. §§2.56 and 2.59(a); TMEP §§904.01 et seq. and 904.09.
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`(cid:160)T
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`he current specimen of record comprises a picture of the goods and is unacceptable as evidence of actual trademark use because the quality of
`the specimen is not clear enough to view the proposed mark..(cid:160) Examples of acceptable specimens for goods are tags, labels, instruction manuals,
`containers, photographs that show the mark on the goods or packaging, or displays associated with the goods at their point of sale.(cid:160) TMEP
`§§904.04 et seq.
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`(cid:160)I
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`f the applicant has any questions or needs assistance in responding to this Office action, please telephone the assigned examining attorney.
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`/Dominic J. Ferraiuolo/
`Attorney(cid:160) US Patent & Trademark Office
`Law Office 102
`tel: (571)-272-9156
`fax: (571) 273-9102
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`(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)
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`HOW TO RESPOND TO THIS OFFICE ACTION:
`ONLINE RESPONSE:(cid:160) You may respond formally using the Office’s Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) Response to
`Office Action form (visit http://www.uspto.gov/teas/index.html and follow the instructions, but if the Office Action has been issued via
`email, you must wait 72 hours after receipt of the Office Action to respond via TEAS).
`REGULAR MAIL RESPONSE:(cid:160) To respond by regular mail, your response should be sent to the mailing return address above and include
`the serial number, law office number and examining attorney’s name in your response.
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`(cid:160)S
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`TATUS OF APPLICATION: To check the status of your application, visit the Office’s Trademark Applications and Registrations Retrieval
`(TARR) system at http://tarr.uspto.gov.
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`(cid:160)V
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`IEW APPLICATION DOCUMENTS ONLINE: Documents in the electronic file for pending applications can be viewed and downloaded
`online at http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/tow.
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`(cid:160)G
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`ENERAL TRADEMARK INFORMATION: For general information about trademarks, please visit the Office’s website at
`http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm
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`(cid:160)F
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`OR INQUIRIES OR QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS OFFICE ACTION, PLEASE CONTACT THE ASSIGNED EXAMINING
`ATTORNEY SPECIFIED ABOVE.
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`CONTENTS -INDEX - ILLUSTRATIONS -EIIEILIOGRAPHIC RECORD
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`The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
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`chill
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`N07-mi 1. A moderate but penetrating coldness. 2. A sensation of coldness, often
`accompanied by shivering and pallor ofthe skin. 3. A checking or dampening
`of enthusiasm, spirit, or joy: bad news inns psi; a chill on she cefebrazien. 4.
`A sudden numbing fear or dread.
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`AD-IECTWE3 1. Moderately cold; chilly: at cnii’! wind. 2. Not warm and fiiendly; distant: at
`chili greeting. 3. Discouraging; dispiriting: “Chi.E.Epeniiry repressed their
`noble rage ” (Thomas Gray).
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`VERB3 Inflected forms: chilled, chill-ing, chills
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`TRANSITIVE 1. To afiect with or as ifwith cold. 2. To lower in temperature; cool. 3. To
`WERE: make discouraged; dispirit. 4. Meza!!urg)r To harden (a metallic surface) by
`rapid cooling.
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`INTRANSITIVE 1. To be seized with cold. 2. To become cold or setzjeffy Mai cniffs qiiicficbr.
`VERB: 3. Mefiaffnrgy To become hard by rapid cooling. 4. Slang a. To calm down
`or relax. Often used with out. I). To pass time idly; loiter. Often used with out.
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`Itliddle English cfzife, fiom Old English Cele. See ge_L in Appendix I.
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`chi].l'i.ng'ly —.n.DvI;2_B
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`In the 19805 and l99Us, 6.32133 gained currency as a slang term meaning “to
`relax, calm down.” It is first recorded in 1979 and comes from Black English
`slang, which has frequently been a source of slang and informal words in
`Standard English, often through the medium of various i’-‘ifiican—i’-‘imerican
`musical styles (in this case, rap and hip—hop). In fact, the word cfziff has had
`several incarnations as a slang term both inside and outside Black English. An
`older slang sense, recorded first in the l87"Os, has been “to lose interest (in
`something), sour (on something)." Since the late 1920s it has also been used
`transitively to mean “to quash” and even “to
`The recent use in the sense
`“to calm down” is another example of slang's innovativeness: English has
`always used words referring to he at and cold metaphorically to refer to
`emotions, and has used cool to refer to calmness since Old English times. Chin’
`is a novel way of saying cc:-of down, an old metaphor. The semantic evolution
`ofc.32:'.l.l continues as this is being written; the new sense of“to relax” has even
`more recently been extended to mean "to relax among Erien s, socialize." Cfiiff
`thus ofifers a good example of how living languages are constantly changing in
`ways that are at once unpredictable and immediately comprehensible.
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