PROTON
Live / Applied — Response to non-final action entered (as of 18 Mar 2026)
What this means for you
Not registered yet, but its 12 May 2025 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
- 99180636
- Mark type
- Stylized text
- Filed
- 12 May 2025
Goods and services
- Class 007 — Machines and machine tools: Power operated machines for physically destroying computer hard drives, HAMR and MAMR hard drives, digital memory devices, flash memory devices, and optical media devices including CDs and DVDs.
- Class 009 — Scientific and electric apparatus: Degaussers; Degaussers, namely computer hardware for permanently disabling stored data, namely floppy disk degaussers, disk drive degaussers, disk pack degaussers, drum memory degaussers, magnetic media degaussers for CDs, DVDs, computer floppy disks, computer hard drives, magnetic tape, and CD-ROM degaussers, worm CD erasers, CD-RW erasers, CD-R erasers, optical media erasers for CDs, DVDs, computer floppy disks and broadcast and video media erasers for CDs, DVDs, and magnetic tape for magnetic tape equipment.
Owner
- Whitaker Brothers Business Machines, Inc., Rockville, MD, US
Prosecution history
- 18 Mar 2026 — TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED
- 18 Mar 2026 — CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE
- 18 Mar 2026 — TEAS RESPONSE TO OFFICE ACTION RECEIVED
- 26 Dec 2025 — APPLICATION EXTENSION GRANTED/RECEIPT PROVIDED
- 26 Dec 2025 — APPLICATION EXTENSION TO RESPONSE PERIOD - RECEIVED
- 02 Oct 2025 — NOTIFICATION OF NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED
- 02 Oct 2025 — NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED
- 02 Oct 2025 — NON-FINAL ACTION WRITTEN
- 25 Sept 2025 — ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER
- 12 May 2025 — APPLICATION FILING RECEIPT MAILED
- 12 May 2025 — NEW APPLICATION OFFICE SUPPLIED DATA ENTERED
- 12 May 2025 — NEW APPLICATION ENTERED