SPOTLIGHT
Live / Applied — Suspended — suspension check completed, case still suspended (as of 31 Jan 2026)
What this means for you
Not registered yet, but its 29 Dec 2021 filing date beats anything filed after it. If it registers, the owner can stop confusingly similar uses in the classes it covers.
Record
- Serial number
- 97194740
- Mark type
- Word mark
- Filed
- 29 Dec 2021
- Attorney of record
- Penina Michlin Chiu
Goods and services
- Class 009 — Scientific and electric apparatus: downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application for social networking; downloadable software to connect social network users with other users, nonprofit organizations, enterprises, businesses, and publishers; downloadable software to enable uploading media, posting media, showing and displaying media, tagging other users, purchasing and sharing digital stickers and non-fungible tokens, blogging, sharing or otherwise providing electronic media or other information of the Internet or other communications network; downloadable digital stickers; downloadable calendaring software; downloadable software for use as a digital wallet; downloadable software for sharing digital stickers; downloadable software for digital collage boards; downloadable workflow management software; downloadable daily work task software; downloadable corporate social responsibility software, namely, software for tracking and measuring the impact of corporate social responsibility programs; all of the foregoing related to advocacy and charitable giving
- Class 035 — Advertising and business services: business administration of consumer loyalty programs; marketing services; advertising services; business consulting services; market research; electronic data collection, data analysis, data processing and data management services, all for business purposes; promoting philanthropy, social impact projects and missions of others through gamification and social impact tracking in the nature of providing collectable digital stickers and perks to persons who complete civic engagement tasks and charitable donations, particularly in connection with reaching milestones in connection therewith, and measuring the impact of corporate social responsibility programs; promoting crowdfunding of others through gamification, namely, providing collectable digital stickers and perks to persons who complete civic engagement tasks and charitable donations, particularly in connection with reaching milestones in connection therewith
- Class 036 — Insurance and financial services: Payment services, namely, processing of credit card and debit card payments initiated via mobile electronic devices and digital wallets; charitable fundraising services; electronic transfer of money for others; crowdfunding services in the nature of providing financing from money collected from individuals; matching gift programs in the nature of charitable fundraising; providing cash and other rebates to persons who complete civic engagement tasks and charitable donations as part of a customer loyalty program; charitable fundraising services through non-fungible token trading and digital sticker campaigns
- Class 038 — Telecommunications services: telecommunications services, namely, electronic transmission of electronic media, data, messages, graphics, images, photos, videos, audio visual content and files; providing online chat rooms, instant messaging services and electronic bulletin boards ; providing an online community forum for users to share and stream information, audio, video, real-time news, or entertainment content to form virtual communities and to engage in social networking
- Class 042 — Scientific and technological services: creating an online community for registered users to engage in social networking; Providing temporary use of non-downloadable software that gives users the ability to engage in social networking and manage their social networking content; Providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for creating, managing and accessing user-created and administered groups within virtual communities; Providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for creating and managing social media profiles and user accounts; Providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for social networking, creating a virtual community, and transmission of audio, video, images, text, content, and data; Providing customized online pages and data feeds featuring user-defined information, which includes blog posts, new media content, sticker walls, digital collage boards, other on-line content, and on-line web links to other websites; all of the foregoing related to advocacy and charitable giving
Owner
- The Spotlight Fund, San Diego, CA, US
Prosecution history
- 31 Jan 2026 — REPORT COMPLETED SUSPENSION CHECK CASE STILL SUSPENDED
- 07 Jul 2025 — REPORT COMPLETED SUSPENSION CHECK CASE STILL SUSPENDED
- 06 Jan 2025 — REPORT COMPLETED SUSPENSION CHECK CASE STILL SUSPENDED
- 03 Jan 2024 — REPORT COMPLETED SUSPENSION CHECK CASE STILL SUSPENDED
- 28 Apr 2023 — NOTIFICATION OF LETTER OF SUSPENSION E-MAILED
- 28 Apr 2023 — LETTER OF SUSPENSION E-MAILED
- 28 Apr 2023 — SUSPENSION LETTER WRITTEN
- 04 Apr 2023 — TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED
- 03 Apr 2023 — CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE
- 03 Apr 2023 — TEAS RESPONSE TO OFFICE ACTION RECEIVED
- 04 Oct 2022 — NOTIFICATION OF NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED
- 04 Oct 2022 — NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED
- 04 Oct 2022 — NON-FINAL ACTION WRITTEN
- 30 Sept 2022 — ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER
- 05 Jan 2022 — NEW APPLICATION OFFICE SUPPLIED DATA ENTERED