FAIR TRADE USA

Live / Registered — Registered and renewed (as of 23 Jul 2025)

What this means for you

Registered since 26 Aug 2014. The owner can stop confusingly similar uses in the classes it covers; it stays on the register as long as the owner keeps up the maintenance filings (next due by 26 Aug 2024).

Record

Serial number
85966224
Registration number
4591306
Mark type
Stylized text
Filed
21 Jun 2013
Published for opposition
10 Jun 2014
Registered
26 Aug 2014
Next maintenance due
26 Aug 2024
Attorney of record
Andrew J. Ferren

Goods and services

  • Class 035 — Advertising and business services: Providing business information in the field of fair trade; promoting public awareness of the need to alleviate poverty among farmers, farm workers, factory workers, and other disadvantaged producers by empowering them to invest in their workplaces and communities, to protect the environment, and to develop the business skills necessary to compete in the global marketplace; promoting public awareness of and interest in fair trade principles as a means to alleviate poverty among farmers, farm workers, factory workers, and other disadvantaged producers by empowering them to invest in their workplaces and communities, to protect the environment, and to develop the business skills necessary to compete in the global marketplace; promoting public awareness and understanding of fair trade certification as a market-based model of trade that promotes fair prices and credit terms, fair labor conditions, direct trade between producers and purchasers, democratic and transparent producer organizations, investment in community development, and environmentally sustainable production methods; business audit services, namely, conducting audits and corrective action programs in the nature of business consulting to evaluate and enforce compliance by others with fair trade standards; conducting business audits in the field of fair trade; business consulting and advisory services, namely, identifying producers' needs for organizational and market development; business consulting and advisory services, namely, business advice relating to improving product quality, producer management capacity, and producer access to credit and markets; business consulting and advisory services relating to capacity building, market development, and market linkage initiatives to facilitate the market for fair trade products; supply chain management and supply chain business administrative support services
  • Class 036 — Insurance and financial services: Charitable fundraising services; financial services, namely, providing financial support to nonprofit and community organizations that engage in public awareness campaigns concerning fair trade; financial services, namely, providing grants to producer organizations; securing investments from foundations, companies, and development agencies in the nature of business finance procurement services to support producers' needs for organizational and market development
  • Class 041 — Education and entertainment services: Vocational education in the fields of agriculture and business; training in the fields of marketing, product quality improvement, product quality control, risk management, credit, finance, contracting, and cooperative management; training in the field of fair trade practices, namely, fair labor conditions, workers' rights, democratic decision making in producer organizations, investments in social and business development projects, and use of environmentally sustainable farming methods
  • Class 042 — Scientific and technological services: Testing, analysis and evaluation of the goods and services of others for the purpose of certification, namely, inspecting and verifying the products, trade practices, and business operations of others for purposes of fair trade certification

Owner

Prior registrations

Prosecution history

  • 23 Jul 2025 — NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF SEC. 8 & 9 - E-MAILED
  • 23 Jul 2025 — REGISTERED AND RENEWED (FIRST RENEWAL - 10 YRS)
  • 23 Jul 2025 — REGISTERED - SEC. 8 (10-YR) ACCEPTED/SEC. 9 GRANTED
  • 23 Jul 2025 — CASE ASSIGNED TO POST REGISTRATION PARALEGAL
  • 25 Feb 2025 — TEAS SECTION 8 & 9 RECEIVED
  • 26 Aug 2023 — COURTESY REMINDER - SEC. 8 (10-YR)/SEC. 9 E-MAILED
  • 08 Jul 2021 — NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF SEC. 8 & 15 - E-MAILED
  • 08 Jul 2021 — REGISTERED - SEC. 8 (6-YR) ACCEPTED & SEC. 15 ACK.
  • 08 Jul 2021 — CASE ASSIGNED TO POST REGISTRATION PARALEGAL
  • 25 Feb 2021 — TEAS SECTION 8 & 15 RECEIVED
  • 26 Aug 2019 — COURTESY REMINDER - SEC. 8 (6-YR) E-MAILED
  • 26 Jul 2019 — APPLICANT/CORRESPONDENCE CHANGES (NON-RESPONSIVE) ENTERED
  • 26 Jul 2019 — TEAS CHANGE OF OWNER ADDRESS RECEIVED
  • 26 Aug 2014 — REGISTERED-PRINCIPAL REGISTER
  • 10 Jun 2014 — OFFICIAL GAZETTE PUBLICATION CONFIRMATION E-MAILED

View this trademark record on Marksy