UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
`(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) SERIAL NO: 76/508092
`(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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`MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC CORPORATION OF AMERI ETC.
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`(cid:160) (cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS:
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`RETURN ADDRESS:(cid:160)
`Commissioner for Trademarks
`2900 Crystal Drive
`Arlington, VA 22202-3514
`ecom112@uspto.gov
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`MORTON AMSTER
`AMSTER, ROTHSTEIN & EBENSTEIN
`90 PARK AVENUE
`NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10016
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`IDEAS FOR LIFE
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`(cid:160) (cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) CORRESPONDENT’S REFERENCE/DOCKET NO :(cid:160)(cid:160) 55210/460
`(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) CORRESPONDENT EMAIL ADDRESS:(cid:160)(cid:160)
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`Please provide in all correspondence:
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`.(cid:160) Filing date, serial number, mark and
`applicant's name.
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`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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`PRIORITY ACTION
`O AVOID ABANDONMENT, WE MUST RECEIVE A PROPER RESPONSE TO THIS OFFICE ACTION WITHIN 6 MONTHS
`OF OUR MAILING OR E-MAILING DATE.(cid:160) This case will be given priority as an amended case if you respond to the requirements stated
`below within two months.
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`OR INQUIRIES OR QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS OFFICE ACTION, PLEASE CONTACT THE ASSIGNED EXAMINING
`ATTORNEY.
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`erial Number(cid:160) 76/508092
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`he following issues were discussed in communication with Morton Amster on
`August 26, 2003.
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`dentification of Goods
`The identification of goods is unacceptable for the reasons set forth below.
`The wording “video printers paper and ink” is unacceptable because it is too broad and identifies goods that fall into more than one international
`class.(cid:160) The applicant may amend this wording as follows, if accurate:
`Class 2:(cid:160) ink for video printers
`Class 9:(cid:160) video printers
`Class 16:(cid:160) paper for video printers
`The remainder of the Class 16 wording is acceptable as written.
`(cid:160)Please note that, while an application may be amended to clarify or limit the identification, additions to the identification are not permitted.(cid:160) 37
`C.F.R. §2.71(a); TMEP §1402.06.(cid:160) Therefore, the applicant may not amend to include any services that are not within the scope of the services
`recited in the present identification.
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`equirements for Multiple Class Applications
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`If the applicant prosecutes this application as a combined, or multiple‑class, application, the applicant must comply with each of the following.
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`1)(cid:160) The applicant must list the goods/services by international class with the classes listed in ascending numerical order.(cid:160) TMEP §1403.01.
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`(cid:160)(cid:160)(2) (cid:160) The applicant must submit a filing fee for each international class of goods/services not covered by the fee already paid.(cid:160) 37 C.F.R.
`class.(cid:160) This applies to classes added to pending applications as well as to new applications filed on or after that date.(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)
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`§§2.6(a)(1) and 2.86(a); TMEP §§810.01 and 1403.01.(cid:160) Effective January 1, 2003, the fee for filing a trademark application is $335 for each
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`Search Results
`Although the examining attorney has searched the Office records and has found no similar registered mark which would bar registration under
`Trademark Act Section 2(d), 15 U.S.C. §1052(d), the examining attorney encloses information regarding pending Application Serial No.
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`76-502203.(cid:160) 37 C.F.R. §2.83.(cid:160)(cid:160)There may be a likelihood of confusion between the applicant’s mark and the mark in the above noted application under Section 2(d) of the
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`Act.(cid:160) The filing date of the referenced application precedes the applicant’s filing date.(cid:160) If the earlier‑filedapplication matures into a registration,
`the examining attorney may refuse registration under Section 2(d).(cid:160)
`Upon receipt of the applicant’s response, the application will be suspended pending the disposition of Application Serial No. 76-502203.
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`/Patty Evanko/
`Examining Attorney-Law Office 112
`ecom112@uspto.gov (formal response)
`patty.evanko@uspto.gov (questions only)
`703-308-9112, ext. 163
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`How to respond to this Office Action:
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`o respond formally using the Office’s Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), visit http://www.uspto.gov/teas/index.html and
`follow the instructions.
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`o respond formally via E-mail, visit http://www.uspto.gov/web/trademarks/tmelecresp.htm and follow the instructions.
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`o respond formally via regular mail, your response should be sent to the mailing Return Address listed above and include the serial number, law
`office and examining attorney’s name on the upper right corner of each page of your response.
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`o check the status of your application at any time, visit the Office’s Trademark Applications and Registrations Retrieval (TARR) system at
`http://tarr.uspto.gov/
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