AFINIS
Live / Registered — Registered (as of 21 Mar 2023)
What this means for you
Registered since 21 Mar 2023. The owner can stop confusingly similar uses in the classes it covers.
Record
- Serial number
- 88098769
- Registration number
- 7006491
- Mark type
- Stylized text
- Filed
- 30 Aug 2018
- Published for opposition
- 28 Apr 2020
- Registered
- 21 Mar 2023
- Attorney of record
- Gregory M. Stone
Goods and services
- Class 009 — Scientific and electric apparatus: Downloadable electronic publications in the nature of books, reports, whitepapers, infographics, research, and training manuals in the field electronic financial transactions; Audio recordings featuring information in the field of electronic financial transaction rules, options, services, networks, and risks; Downloadable electronic newsletters in the field of electronic financial transaction rules, options, services, networks, and risks; Video recordings featuring information in the field of electronic financial transaction rules, options, services, networks, and risks
- Class 016 — Paper goods and printed matter: Books in the field of electronic financial transactions; Brochures about electronic financial transactions; Business cards; Informational flyers featuring information about electronic financial transactions; Letterhead paper; Manuals in the field of electronic financial transactions; Newsletters in the field of electronic financial transactions
- Class 035 — Advertising and business services: Association services, namely, promoting the interests of the electronic financial transactions community; association services, namely, promoting the interest of the electronic financial transactions community by developing and promulgating voluntary rules and standards for electronic financial transactions; Association services, namely, promoting the interests of safe and reliable electronic payment services; Association services, namely, promoting the interests of members of the payments industry and users of the Automated Clearing House (ACH) Network, and providing access to committees, workgroups, and stakeholder groups focused on the payments industry and the ACH Network
- Class 036 — Insurance and financial services: Providing websites featuring educational information about electronic financial transactions and the ACH Network
- Class 041 — Education and entertainment services: Education services, namely, providing meetings, conferences, classes, seminars, workshops, programs, teleconferences, in-person educational events, webinars, and virtual educational events in the field of rules and standards for electronic financial transactions and their use, and related risk management, security and sound business practices including the ACH Network, electronic banking, financial data exchange, and Application Programming Interfaces ("APIs") for Automated Clearing House ("ACH") and other electronic financial transactions; Online journals, namely, blogs featuring information in the field of electronic financial transactions, billing and payment rules, options, services, networks, and risks
- Class 042 — Scientific and technological services: Providing temporary use of on-line, non-downloadable software featuring computer-implemented routines and procedures to facilitate the collaborative development and use of standardized APIs related to financial transactions, electronic payments and financial data exchange
Owner
- National Automated Clearing House Association, Herndon, VA, US
- National Automated Clearing House Association, Herndon, VA, US
- National Automated Clearing House Association, Herndon, VA, US
Prosecution history
- 21 Mar 2023 — NOTICE OF REGISTRATION CONFIRMATION EMAILED
- 21 Mar 2023 — REGISTERED-PRINCIPAL REGISTER
- 15 Feb 2023 — NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF STATEMENT OF USE E-MAILED
- 14 Feb 2023 — ALLOWED PRINCIPAL REGISTER - SOU ACCEPTED
- 12 Jan 2023 — NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF EXTENSION REQUEST E-MAILED
- 11 Jan 2023 — STATEMENT OF USE PROCESSING COMPLETE
- 22 Dec 2022 — USE AMENDMENT FILED
- 11 Jan 2023 — SOU EXTENSION 5 GRANTED
- 22 Dec 2022 — SOU EXTENSION 5 FILED
- 11 Jan 2023 — CASE ASSIGNED TO INTENT TO USE PARALEGAL
- 22 Dec 2022 — SOU TEAS EXTENSION RECEIVED
- 22 Dec 2022 — TEAS STATEMENT OF USE RECEIVED
- 25 Jun 2022 — NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF EXTENSION REQUEST E-MAILED
- 23 Jun 2022 — SOU EXTENSION 4 GRANTED
- 23 Jun 2022 — SOU EXTENSION 4 FILED