UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) APPLICANT: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO.,; LTD ETC.
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`*79001542*
`RETURN ADDRESS:(cid:160)
`Commissioner for Trademarks
`2900 Crystal Drive
`Arlington, VA 22202-3514
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`(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) CORRESPONDENT ADDRESS:
`(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) KAWAMIYA Osamu
`(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) Aoyama & Partners
`(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)
`IMP Building, 3-7, Shiromi 1-chome,
`(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) Chuo-ku,
`(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) Osaka-shi, Osaka 540-0001 JAPAN
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`REAL MACH SYSTEM
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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)(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160) CORRESPONDENT’S REFERENCE/DOCKET NO :(cid:160)(cid:160) N/A
`(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
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`applicant's name.
`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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`O AVOID ABANDONMENT, WE MUST RECEIVE A PROPER RESPONSE TO THIS
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`OFFICE ACTION
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`OFFICE ACTION WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF OUR MAILING OR E-MAILING DATE.(cid:160)(cid:160)(cid:160)
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`Serial Number(cid:160) 79/001542
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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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`owever, before the mark can be published for opposition, the applicant must address the following
`informalities:
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`isclaimer Required
`Trademark Act Section 6(a), 15 U.S.C. Section 1056(a), states that the Commissioner may require the
`applicant to disclaim an unregistrable component of a mark.(cid:160) Trademark Act Section 2(e), 15 U.S.C.
`Section 1052(e), bars the registration of a mark which is merely descriptive or deceptively misdescriptive,
`or primarily geographically descriptive or deceptively misdescriptive of the goods. Therefore,
`the
`Commissioner may require the disclaimer of a portion of a mark which, when used in connection with the
`goods or services,
`is merely descriptive or deceptively misdescriptive, or primarily geographically
`descriptive or deceptively misdescriptive.(cid:160) If an applicant does not comply with a disclaimer requirement,
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`the examining attorney may refuse registration of the entire mark.(cid:160) TMEP section 1213.01(b).
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`he applicant must insert a disclaimer of “SYSTEM” in the application because the term merely
`describes the type of goods for which the mark is intended.(cid:160) Trademark Act Section 6, 15 U.S.C. Section
`1056; TMEP section 1213.(cid:160) The term “SYSTEM” is merely descriptive because it denotes a component
`of the goods.
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`he computerized printing format for the Trademark Official Gazette requires a standard form for a
`disclaimer.(cid:160)(cid:160) TMEP section 1213.09(a)(i).(cid:160) A properly worded disclaimer should read as follows:
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`No claim is made to the exclusive right to use SYSTEM apart from the mark as shown.
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`ee In re Owatonna Tool Co., 231 USPQ 493 (Comm'r Pats. 1983).
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`disclaimer does not remove the disclaimed matter from the mark.(cid:160) It is simply a statement that the
`applicant does not claim exclusive rights in the disclaimed wording or design apart from the mark as
`shown in the drawing.
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`Gina Hayes/
`Trademark Attorney
`U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
`Law Office 112
`(703) 308-9112, ext. 136
`(703) 746-8112 (Fax No. for Responses Only)
`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 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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`or general and other useful information about trademarks, you are encouraged to visit the Office’s web
`site at http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm
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`OR INQUIRIES OR QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS OFFICE ACTION, PLEASE CONTACT THE
`ASSIGNED EXAMINING ATTORNEY.
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