PROVISIONAL REFUSAL OF PROTECTION
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`IDENTIFICATION SECTION
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`INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION NUMBER
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`1478876
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`OFFICE REFERENCE
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`ORIGINAL LANGUAGE CODE
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`FILE SECTION
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`79263720
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`\\TICRS\EXPORT17\IMAGEOUT17\792\637\79263720\xml8\MOC0002.xml
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`GOODS AND SERVICES SECTION
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`ALL GOODS AND SERVICES INDICATOR
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`Protection has been refused for all the goods and services.
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`INSTRUCTIONS SECTION
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`FREE TEXT PROCESSING INSTRUCTIONS
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`U. S. designated on 20190527; Non-final examiner action
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`MAIL DATE
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`10/05/2019
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`United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
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`Office Action (Official Letter) About Applicant’s Trademark Application
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`U.S. Application
`Serial No.
`79263720
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`Mark:   NANOE
`MOISTURE +
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`Correspondence
`Address: 
`HASHIMOTO
`Chikako
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`Hogan Lovells
`Horitsu Jimusho
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`Gaikokuho
`Kyodo Jigyo,
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`Tokyo 100-0013
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`JAPAN
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`Applicant:  
`Panasonic
`Corporation
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`Reference/Docket
`No. N/A
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`Email Address:      
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`Correspondence
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`NONFINAL OFFICE ACTION
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`International Registration No. 1478876
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`Notice of Provisional Full Refusal
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`Deadline for responding.  The USPTO must receive applicant’s response within six months of the “date on which the notification was sent
`to WIPO (mailing date)” located on the WIPO cover letter, or the U.S. application will be abandoned.  To confirm the mailing date, go to the
`USPTO’s Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR) database, select “US Serial, Registration, or Reference No.,” enter the U.S.
`application serial number in the blank text box, and click on “Documents.”   The mailing date used to calculate the response deadline is the
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`“Create/Mail Date” of the “IB-1rst Refusal Note.”   
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`Respond to this Office action using the USPTO’s Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS).   A link to the appropriate TEAS response
`form appears at the end of this Office action.
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`Discussion of provisional full refusal.  This is a provisional full refusal of the request for extension of protection to the United States of the
`international registration, known in the United States as a U.S. application based on Trademark Act Section 66(a).  See 15 U.S.C. §§1141f(a),
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`1141h(c).  
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`The referenced application has been reviewed by the assigned trademark examining attorney.  Applicant must respond timely and completely to
`the issue(s) below.  15 U.S.C. §1062(b); 37 C.F.R. §§2.62(a), 2.65(a); TMEP §§711, 718.03.
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`SEARCH OF OFFICE’S DATABASE OF MARKS
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`The trademark examining attorney has searched the Office’s database of registered and pending marks and has found no conflicting marks that
`would bar registration under Trademark Act Section 2(d).  TMEP §704.02; see 15 U.S.C. §1052(d).
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`SUMMARY OF ISSUES:
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`Mark Description Requirement
`Disclaimer Requirement
`U.S. Attorney Requirement
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`MARK DESCRIPTION REQUIREMENT
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`Applicant must submit a description of the mark, because one was not included in the application.  37 C.F.R. §2.37; see TMEP §§808.01,
`808.02.  Applications for marks not in standard characters must include an accurate and concise description of the entire mark that identifies all
`the literal and design elements.  See 37 C.F.R. §2.37; TMEP §§808.01, 808.02, 808.03(b).  In this case, the drawing of the mark is not in standard
`characters.
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`The following description is suggested, if accurate:  The mark consists of the stylized word “NANOE” to the right of a larger partial circle
`and a smaller circle where the larger circle has a portion of it missing as if the smaller circle was being inserted into the larger circle;
`below is the word “MOISTURE +” in a rectangular carrier.
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`DISCLAIMER REQUIREMENT
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`Applicant must provide a disclaimer of the unregistrable part of the applied-for mark even though the mark as a whole appears to be registrable. 
`See 15 U.S.C. §1056(a); TMEP §§1213, 1213.03(a).  A disclaimer of an unregistrable part of a mark will not affect the mark’s appearance.   See
`Schwarzkopf v. John H. Breck, Inc., 340 F.2d 978, 979-80, 144 USPQ 433, 433 (C.C.P.A. 1965).
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`In this case, applicant must disclaim the wording “MOISTURE” because it is not inherently distinctive.   This unregistrable term at best is merely
`descriptive of an ingredient, quality, characteristic, function, feature, purpose, or use of applicant’s goods and/or services.   See 15 U.S.C.
`§1052(e)(1); DuoProSS Meditech Corp. v. Inviro Med. Devices, Ltd., 695 F.3d 1247, 1251, 103 USPQ2d 1753, 1755 (Fed. Cir. 2012); TMEP
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`§§1213, 1213.03(a).  
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`The attached evidence from applicant’s website shows this wording is used to describe how applicant’s goods “improve skin moisture” and
`how its hair styling products use applicant’s “moisture-infusing technology.”   See attach evidence from applicant’s website.   Thus, the wording
`merely describes a feature of applicant’s goods.
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`Applicant may respond to this issue by submitting a disclaimer in the following format:  
`No claim is made to the exclusive right to use “MOISTURE” apart from the mark as shown.   
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`For an overview of disclaimers and instructions on how to satisfy this issue using the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), see the
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`Disclaimer webpage.  
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`U.S. ATTORNEY REQUIREMENT
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`Applicant must be represented by a U.S.-licensed attorney at the USPTO to respond to or appeal the provisional refusal.  An applicant
`whose domicile is located outside of the United States or its territories is foreign-domiciled and must be represented at the USPTO by an attorney
`who is an active member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of a U.S. state or territory.  37 C.F.R. §§2.11(a), 11.14; Requirement of
`U.S.-Licensed Attorney for Foreign-Domiciled Trademark Applicants & Registrants, Examination Guide 4-19, at I.A. (Rev. Sept. 2019).  An
`individual applicant’s domicile is the place a person resides and intends to be the person’s principal home.
`  37 C.F.R. §2.2(o); Examination
`Guide 4-19, at I.A.  A juristic entity’s domicile is the principal place of business; i.e., headquarters, where a juristic entity applicant’s senior
`executives or officers ordinarily direct and control the entity’s activities.   37 C.F.R. §2.2(o); Examination Guide 4-19, at I.A.  Because applicant
`is foreign-domiciled, applicant must appoint such a U.S.-licensed attorney qualified to practice under 37 C.F.R. §11.14 as its representative
`before the application may proceed to registration.  37 C.F.R. §2.11(a).  See Hiring a U.S.-licensed trademark attorney for more information.
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`To appoint or designate a U.S.-licensed attorney.  To appoint an attorney, applicant should submit a completed Trademark Electronic
`Application System (TEAS) Revocation, Appointment, and/or Change of Address of Attorney/Domestic Representative form.  The newly-
`appointed attorney must submit a TEAS Response to Examining Attorney Office Action form indicating that an appointment of attorney has been
`made and address all other refusals or requirements in this action, if any.  Alternatively, if applicant retains an attorney before filing the response,
`the attorney can respond to this Office action by using the appropriate TEAS response form and provide his or her attorney information in the
`form and sign it as applicant’s attorney.   See 37 C.F.R. §2.17(b)(1)(ii).
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`How to respond.   Click to file a response to this nonfinal Office action    
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`/Laraine Burrell/
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`Laraine M. I. Burrell
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`Examining Attorney
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`Law Office 111
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`(571) 272-8220
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`laraine.burrell@uspto.gov
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`RESPONSE GUIDANCE
`Missing the response deadline to this letter will cause the application to abandon.   A response or notice of appeal must be received by
`the USPTO before midnight Eastern Time of the last day of the response period.   TEAS and ESTTA maintenance or unforeseen
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`circumstances could affect an applicant’s ability to timely respond.   
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`Responses signed by an unauthorized party are not accepted and can cause the application to abandon.  If applicant does not have an
`attorney, the response must be signed by the individual applicant, all joint applicants, or someone with legal authority to bind a juristic
`applicant.  If applicant has an attorney, the response must be signed by the attorney.
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`If needed, find contact information for the supervisor of the office or unit listed in the signature block.
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