MIFARE Trademark

Trademark Overview


On Friday, March 3, 2023, a trademark application was filed for MIFARE with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The USPTO has given the MIFARE trademark a serial number of 97821990. The federal status of this trademark filing is EX PARTE APPEAL PENDING as of Tuesday, February 18, 2025. This trademark is owned by NXP B.V.. The MIFARE trademark is filed in the Computer & Software Products & Electrical & Scientific Products and Computer & Software Services & Scientific Services categories with the following description:

Data processing equipment, data storage apparatus namely, data processors for scanning, reading, storing and interpreting electronic data contained on radio frequency identification (RFID) and near field communication (NFC) chips; microprocessors; interfaces for computers; integrated circuits (ICs), integrated circuit chips; semiconductors; smart cards, namely, blank smart cards; encoded smart cards containing programming used for public transit, payments, loyalty programs, hospitality, transportation, student identification cards, identification cards, membership cards, parking, event management, vehicle sharing, and access management, namely, access to certain areas, gaining access to buildings, gaining access to premises, and gaining access to vehicles; smart card integrated circuits, namely, blank integrated circuit cards; encoded integrated circuit cards containing programming used for public transit, payments, loyalty programs, hospitality, transportation, student identification ...

Computer programming services; installation, repair and maintenance of software for creating, programming, controlling, encoding, scanning, reading and interpreting RFID chips and tags, and of software for determining the fare to be paid by passengers with electronic travel-tickets; research, design and development services related to electronic, electrotechnical and electromagnetic modules, namely, transistors, analog logic, digital logic, electrotechnical parts and smartcards, parts and building elements, namely, structural parts for the forgoing, data processing machines, data storage apparatus, microprocessors, interfaces, namely, interfaces for data transfer inside an integrated circuit IC and interfaces for sharing data between cloud computing area (APIs), integrated circuits, chips, namely, semiconductor chips, semiconductors and blank and encoded smart cards, electronic controllers for smart cards, electronic controllers for RFID chips and tags; research, design and development...
mifare

General Information


Serial Number97821990
Word MarkMIFARE
Filing DateFriday, March 3, 2023
Status760 - EX PARTE APPEAL PENDING
Status DateTuesday, February 18, 2025
Registration Number0000000
Registration DateNOT AVAILABLE
Mark Drawing4 - Illustration: Drawing with word(s) / letter(s) / number(s) in Block form
Published for Opposition DateNOT AVAILABLE

Trademark Statements


Goods and ServicesData processing equipment, data storage apparatus namely, data processors for scanning, reading, storing and interpreting electronic data contained on radio frequency identification (RFID) and near field communication (NFC) chips; microprocessors; interfaces for computers; integrated circuits (ICs), integrated circuit chips; semiconductors; smart cards, namely, blank smart cards; encoded smart cards containing programming used for public transit, payments, loyalty programs, hospitality, transportation, student identification cards, identification cards, membership cards, parking, event management, vehicle sharing, and access management, namely, access to certain areas, gaining access to buildings, gaining access to premises, and gaining access to vehicles; smart card integrated circuits, namely, blank integrated circuit cards; encoded integrated circuit cards containing programming used for public transit, payments, loyalty programs, hospitality, transportation, student identification cards, identification cards, membership cards, parking, event management, vehicle sharing, and access management, namely, access to certain areas, gaining access to buildings, gaining access to premises, and gaining access to vehicles; radio frequency identification (RFID) labels; radio frequency identification (RFID) tags; blank smart cards with integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) chips; encoded smart cards with integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) chips containing programming used for public transit, payments, loyalty programs, hospitality, transportation, student identification cards, identification cards, membership cards, parking, event management, vehicle sharing, and access management, namely, access to certain areas, gaining access to buildings, gaining access to premises, and gaining access to vehicles; computer hardware and downloadable software for creating, programming, controlling, encoding, scanning, reading and interpreting radio frequency identification (RFID) chips and tags; encoded integrated circuit cards containing programming used for public transit, payments, loyalty programs, hospitality, transportation, student identification cards, identification cards, membership cards, parking, event management, vehicle sharing, and access management, namely, access to certain areas, gaining access to buildings, gaining access to premises, and gaining access to vehicles; encoded contactless smart cards embedded with transponders, central processing units, cryptographic co-processors, analog logic, digital logic, and memory for use in public transit, payments, loyalty programs, hospitality, car access, electric vehicle charging, event management, and access management, namely, access to certain areas, gaining access to buildings, gaining access to premises, and gaining access to vehicles; blank dual interface smart cards embedded with transponders, central processing units, cryptographic co-processors, integrated circuits which use analog logic and digital logic, and memory; encoded dual interface smart cards embedded with transponders, central processing units, cryptographic co-processors, integrated circuits which use analog logic and digital logic, and memory for use for public transit, payments, and physical access management, namely, access to certain areas, gaining access to buildings, gaining access to premises, and gaining access to vehicles; dual interface integrated circuits that provide a link between contactless cards and contact cards; encoded contactless smart cards containing programming used for determining the fare to be paid by passengers who book their trip electronically; encoded contactless smart cards containing programming used for gaining access to certain areas, buildings, premises, and vehicles; RFID writers, namely devices that communicate with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and devices that can read and write data onto RFID tags and perform contactless transactions and operations between the reader and writer devices and smartcards or tag devices for wireless transmission of data to and from transponder chips; RFID readers for wireless transmission of data to and from transponder chips; RFID readers for wireless transmission of data to and from transponder chips downloadable computer programs for controlling transmission of data to and reading of data from transponder chips; electronic card readers combined with electronic data recorders for authenticating identity, controlling access to social and business events, managing events, ticketing, transit, tourism, hospitality, student cards, loyalty programs, payment, and access management, namely, access to certain areas, gaining access to buildings, gaining access to premises, and gaining access to vehicles; electronic wristbands intended to be used for cashless vending, transportation and club membership identification; computer hardware, downloadable software and computer peripherals used for access control and authentication purposes; electronic key fobs being remote control apparatus; downloadable cloud computing software for downloading payment information onto end user devices, namely, mobile phones and wearable devices, sold separately; cloud computing systems comprised of cloud computing hardware, namely, HSM (high security modules) which are accessed and used by cloud computing software, namely, hardware security appliance in the nature of a computer hardware security module (HSM) for encrypting sensitive data; downloadable software for cloud infrastructure for downloading virtual card information and virtual card data onto end user devices, namely, mobile phones and wearable devices; downloadable cloud computing platform software for use on mobile devices with near field communication (NFC) functionality to interact with smartcard integrated circuits and connect with backend cloud software services which provide and manage virtual cards and virtual card data remotely, containing software and software built by OEMs to emulate smartcard products, interact with smartcard products, and interact with cloud software service backend systems which provide and manage virtual cards and virtual card data remotely; downloadable cloud computing platform software for generating smartcard and virtual card encryption key material in a secure HSM module, namely, hardware security appliance in the nature of a computer hardware security module (HSM) for encrypting sensitive data, deploying virtual machines to a cloud computing platform, implementing and emulating smartcard functionality in software, personalizing smart cards, and securely generating data that is used to personalize and download data into smart cards; downloadable computer application software for providing cloud computing services; downloadable cloud based software solutions for managing digital credentials on mobile devices and wearable devices, namely, mobile phones and wearable devices supporting NFC-enabled mobile devices for fare payments made using mobile devices, transit ticketing using mobile devices, and smart card access; computer hardware, namely, secure access modules; downloadable interface software, namely, mobile device and wearable device interface software for virtual cards and virtual wallets; secure microprocessors; secure terminals for electronic transactions; downloadable software for facilitating secure financial transactions; SIM cards; downloadable computer software for the implementation of smartcards on mobile devices and wearable devices; downloadable software for security and risk management in respect of smartcard implementation on mobile devices and wearable devices; downloadable host card emulation (HCE) software for storing virtual smart card on mobile devices and wearable devices, namely, software that enables mobile devices and wearable devices to be used for making payments, accessing transit and credit and debit transactions at physical point-of-sale (POS) terminals; downloadable software embedded on a SE (Secure Element), namely, a secure integrated circuit for use in mobile and wearable device applications which facilitate virtual card storing on mobile devices and wearable devices
Goods and ServicesComputer programming services; installation, repair and maintenance of software for creating, programming, controlling, encoding, scanning, reading and interpreting RFID chips and tags, and of software for determining the fare to be paid by passengers with electronic travel-tickets; research, design and development services related to electronic, electrotechnical and electromagnetic modules, namely, transistors, analog logic, digital logic, electrotechnical parts and smartcards, parts and building elements, namely, structural parts for the forgoing, data processing machines, data storage apparatus, microprocessors, interfaces, namely, interfaces for data transfer inside an integrated circuit IC and interfaces for sharing data between cloud computing area (APIs), integrated circuits, chips, namely, semiconductor chips, semiconductors and blank and encoded smart cards, electronic controllers for smart cards, electronic controllers for RFID chips and tags; research, design and development services related to computer hardware and software for creating, programming, controlling, encoding, scanning, reading and interpreting RFID chips and tags; research, design and development services related to electronic apparatus, instruments and equipment in the nature of NFC reader devices, NFC verification and validation tools, integrated circuit development environments for analog design and digital design, and debugging tools for creating, programming, controlling, encoding, scanning, reading and interpreting RFID chips and tags, antennas for smart card integrated circuits for use with NFC interface; research, design and development services in the field of NFC (near field communications) apparatus, instruments and equipment, namely, electronic, electrotechnical and electromagnetic modules, namely, transistors, analog logic, digital logic, electrotechnical parts and smartcards, parts and building elements, namely, structural parts for the forgoing, and integrated circuits for NFC applications, electronic payment cards, data processing apparatus and computer software for determining the fare to be paid by passengers with electronic travel-tickets; research, design and development services related to structural parts for all the aforesaid goods; custom computer programming for others; custom programming in secure environment of computer hardware used for creating, programming, controlling, encoding, scanning, reading and interpreting RFID chips and tags, electronic apparatus, instruments and equipment for creating, programming, controlling, encoding, scanning, reading and interpreting RFID chips and tags, antennas for smart card integrated circuits for use with NFC interface for scanning, reading and interpreting RFID chips and tags; custom computer programming of NFC (near field communications) apparatus, instruments and equipment, including electronic, electrotechnical and electromagnetic modules, namely, transistors, analog logic, digital logic, electrotechnical parts and smartcards, structural parts for the foregoing and integrated circuits for near field communications applications, electronic payment cards, data processing apparatus and software for determining the fare to be paid by passengers with electronic travel-tickets; custom computer programming of structural parts for all the aforesaid goods; cloud computing, namely, providing virtual computer systems and virtual computer environments through cloud computing and cloud hosting provider services; cloud computing services, namely, providing hosted virtual computer environments through cloud computing; providing temporary use of non-downloadable cloud computing software for use service management for cloud platforms for maintaining service level for cloud service availability and response times; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for the implementation of virtual cards onto embedded secure integrated circuits for smartcards on mobile devices and wearable devices; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for security and risk management in respect of smartcard implementation of virtual cards onto embedded secure integrated circuits for on mobile devices and wearable devices; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for virtual card storing on mobile devices and wearable devices embedded on a HCE (Host Card Emulation), namely, software for securing a mobile phone such that it can be used to make credit or debit transactions at a physical point-of-sale (POS) terminals; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for virtual smart card storing on mobile devices and wearable device embedded on a SE (Secure Element), namely, a secure integrated circuit; advisory, consultancy and information services in relation to all the aforesaid services

Classification Information


International Class009 - Scientific, nautical, surveying, photographic, cinematographic, optical, weighing, measuring, signalling, checking (supervision), life-saving and teaching apparatus and instruments; apparatus and instruments for conducting, switching, transforming, accumulating, regulating or controlling electricity; apparatus for recording, transmission or reproduction of sound or images; magnetic data carriers, recording discs; automatic vending machines and mechanisms for coin operated apparatus; cash registers, calculating machines, data processing equipment and computers; fire extinguishing apparatus.
US Class Codes021, 023, 026, 036, 038
Class Status Code6 - Active
Class Status DateThursday, March 23, 2023
Primary Code009
First Use Anywhere DateTuesday, December 31, 2002
First Use In Commerce DateTuesday, December 31, 2002

International Class042 - Scientific and technological services and research and design relating thereto; industrial analysis and research services; design and development of computer hardware and software.
US Class Codes100, 101
Class Status Code6 - Active
Class Status DateThursday, March 23, 2023
Primary Code042
First Use Anywhere DateTuesday, February 8, 2011
First Use In Commerce DateTuesday, February 8, 2011

Trademark Owner History


Party NameNXP B.V.
Party Type10 - Original Applicant
Legal Entity Type99 - Other
AddressEindhoven NL-5656AG
NL

Trademark Events


Event DateEvent Description
Tuesday, March 7, 2023NEW APPLICATION ENTERED
Thursday, March 23, 2023NEW APPLICATION OFFICE SUPPLIED DATA ENTERED
Tuesday, December 12, 2023NON-FINAL ACTION WRITTEN
Friday, December 1, 2023ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER
Tuesday, December 12, 2023NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED
Tuesday, December 12, 2023NOTIFICATION OF NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED
Tuesday, March 12, 2024CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE
Tuesday, March 12, 2024TEAS RESPONSE TO OFFICE ACTION RECEIVED
Tuesday, March 12, 2024TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED
Wednesday, April 10, 2024NOTIFICATION OF LETTER OF SUSPENSION E-MAILED
Wednesday, April 10, 2024SUSPENSION LETTER WRITTEN
Wednesday, April 10, 2024LETTER OF SUSPENSION E-MAILED
Tuesday, July 9, 2024TEAS RESPONSE TO SUSPENSION INQUIRY RECEIVED
Tuesday, July 9, 2024TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED
Tuesday, July 9, 2024CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE
Monday, August 19, 2024NOTIFICATION OF FINAL REFUSAL EMAILED
Monday, August 19, 2024FINAL REFUSAL E-MAILED
Monday, August 19, 2024FINAL REFUSAL WRITTEN
Tuesday, February 18, 2025TEAS REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION RECEIVED
Tuesday, February 18, 2025EXPARTE APPEAL RECEIVED AT TTAB
Tuesday, February 18, 2025JURISDICTION RESTORED TO EXAMINING ATTORNEY
Tuesday, February 18, 2025EX PARTE APPEAL-INSTITUTED
Wednesday, February 26, 2025CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE
Wednesday, February 26, 2025TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED
Thursday, February 27, 2025ASSIGNED TO LIE
Wednesday, November 6, 2024APPLICATION EXTENSION TO RESPONSE PERIOD - RECEIVED
Wednesday, November 6, 2024APPLICATION EXTENSION GRANTED/RECEIPT PROVIDED