| Serial Number | 79422434 |
| Word Mark | +S |
| Filing Date | Wednesday, February 19, 2025 |
| Status | 645 - FINAL REFUSAL - MAILED |
| Status Date | Tuesday, January 27, 2026 |
| Registration Number | 0000000 |
| Registration Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Mark Drawing | 3 - Illustration: Drawing or design which also includes word(s) / letter(s) / number(s) |
| Published for Opposition Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Goods and Services | Battery-powered machines for railway repair, namely, rail grinding machine, switch grinding machines, rail and switch grinding machines, profile grinding machines, web grinding machines, rail cutting machines, rail milling machines, weld trimming machines, rail aligning machines, rail drilling machines, battery-powered lifting machines, rail preheating machines; Battery-powered machines for railway repair, namely, Battery-powered hydraulic machines, namely, hydraulic pressure pumps and hydraulic power units; Battery-powered machines for railway repair, namely, Machines for railway repair, namely, hydraulic weld trimmers, rail drilling machines, impact wrenches, tie drilling machines, tamping machines; Battery-powered machines for railway repair, namely, Rail fastening system, comprised of rail clamps, clamp shoulder, rail pads, and insulators, installation and removal devices being machines, rail deburring machines, spike driver and puller machines, rail puller machines, rail saws, grinding machines, machines for sand luting and sealing of rail joints; Battery-powered machines for railway repair, namely, Rail lubrication system comprised of lubrication pump machines, lubricant dispensing machines for industrial use, and lubrication controllers; Battery-powered machines for railway repair, namely, Flangeway cleaners being flangeway cleaning machines; Battery-powered machines for railway repair, namely, Weld cooling devices being gas welding machines which can provide blasts of air to instantly cool hot welds; Battery-powered machines for railway repair, namely, Fume gas filtering systems being filters and purifiers for removing contaminants from gases and fumes produced during welding operations; Machines for railway construction, namely, power-operated rail saws, rail lifting machines; Battery-powered devices for processing rail joints before welding, namely, web grinding machines; Battery-powered preheater for welding rail, namely, preheating device for aluminothermic welding, autogenous preheating torches, namely, metal rail preheating machines, preheating jets being welding torches which apply intense streams of heat to metal components before welding; Battery-powered rail grinder, namely, profile grinding machines for metalworking, web grinding machines, and rail and switch grinding machines; Battery-powered weld shearing device, namely, electrically driven hydraulic weld shears; Battery-powered rail cutting machine; Battery-powered rail milling machine; Battery-powered welding machines which contain devices for induction welding; Battery-powered welding machines for aluminothermic welding; electric igniters for aluminothermic welding; Battery-powered drilling machines, namely, rail drilling machines; Battery-powered machine for railway rail alignment, namely, rail aligners; Filter machine for rail repair, namely, fume gas filtering systems being filters and purifiers for removing contaminants from gases and fumes produced during welding for use in railway rail repair |
| Description of Mark | The mark consists of "+S" where the "+" is formed by rows of small shaded circles. |
| Goods and Services | Measurement apparatus, namely, electronic measuring devices for rail profile, measuring devices for rail cross profile, rail thermometers, track and switch geometry measuring devices, non-contact track geometry measurement modules, non-contact rail corrugation measurement modules, non-contact switch assessment modules, non-contact rail profile assessment modules; Measurement apparatus, namely, Visual inspection units being optical inspection apparatus, line scan cameras, and video inspection cameras for railway tracks; Rail wear measurement devices, Track alignment measurement systems comprised of optical sensors, electronic distance measuring instruments and laser alignment sensors; Measurement apparatus, namely, Rail stress measurement apparatus, Welding temperature monitoring devices for railway applications; Measurement apparatus, namely, Rail joint quality inspection systems comprised of distance sensors, position sensors, laser displacement sensors and electronic gap measuring instruments; Measurement apparatus, namely, Track condition monitoring sensors for railways, being accelerometers, vibration sensors, strain gauges, temperature sensors, and displacement sensors for railway track condition monitoring; Measurement apparatus, namely, GPS-based track positioning systems for railway infrastructure; Measurement apparatus, namely, Digital documentation systems comprised of computer hardware, data processing apparatus, embedded computer software for analyzing rail inspection data, tablet computers for field data entry, and wireless data transmission modules for railway track maintenance; Measurement apparatus, namely, Laser-based rail measurement systems comprised of laser displacement sensors, laser profilometers, laser line scanners, structured light sensors, and laser triangulation sensors for rail measurement; Measurement apparatus, namely, Acoustic rail testing equipment for railways, being acoustic emission sensors, sound level meters, structure-borne noise sensors, and acoustic rail fault detection devices; Measurement apparatus, namely, Ultrasonic testing apparatus for rail inspection; Measurement apparatus, namely, Data acquisition systems comprised of data processing equipment, signal conditioning modules, electronic data loggers, and real-time data transmission units for railway infrastructure monitoring; Measurement apparatus, namely, Non-destructive testing apparatus, namely, eddy current testing systems comprised of electrical eddy current test equipment, eddy current probes, eddy current array sensors, and eddy current signal processing units for detecting rail defects; Measurement apparatus, namely, Laser inspection systems comprised of laser scanners, laser profilometers, laser displacement sensors, and laser surface inspection modules for rail inspection; LiDAR inspection systems comprised of LiDAR apparatus, LiDAR and rotating LiDAR sensors; Measurement apparatus, namely, radar inspection systems comprised of radar apparatus and radar detectors for railway track inspection; Visual inspection systems comprised of telescopes, magnifying lenses, endoscopes for non-medical use, and borescopes for railway visual inspection; Measurement apparatus, namely, Camera inspection systems comprised of cameras, line scan cameras, area scan cameras, thermal imaging cameras, and pan-tilt camera units for railway inspection; battery charging equipment, namely, chargers for batteries of battery-powered tools and equipment for track maintenance, multi-port battery charging stations, fast chargers for lithium-ion batteries used in railway maintenance equipment, and portable field battery chargers; Electrical filters, namely, fume gas filters being low pass inductor filter used in high power electrical applications for use in aluminothermic welding; Batteries; Battery charge devices |
| Pseudo Mark | PLUS S |
| Goods and Services | Hand tools for maintenance and handling work on railway tracks, namely, spike setters, tamping tools, chisels, spatulas, hammers, crowbars; Hand tools for maintenance and handling work on railway tracks, namely, Rail cutting tools, hand-operated rail saws, hand-operated rail cutters, hand-operated bolt cutters, and hand-operated hacksaws for cutting rails; Hand tools for maintenance and handling work on railway tracks, namely, Rail bending tools, namely, hand-operated rail benders and hand-operated rail straightening bars; Hand tools for maintenance and handling work on railway tracks, namely, Rail alignment tools; Rail alignment tools, namely, Rail joint preparation tools being claw hammers, monkey wrenches and rail joint files, hand-operated rail end grinders; Hand tools for maintenance and handling work on railway tracks, namely, Welding mold preparation tools, being hand-operated mold clamps, mold scrapers, sand tamping tools, graphite plate placement tools, and sealing sand application tools for preparing and securing welding molds for aluminothermic welding; Hand tools for maintenance and handling work on railway tracks, namely, Rail cleaning tools being scrapers for removing debris from rails, hand-operated rail surface cleaning chisels, and hand-operated rail head cleaning tools,; Hand tools for maintenance and handling work on railway tracks, namely, Hand-operated clamping devices for rail profiles, Rail cleaning scrapers, Rail fastener installation tools being hand-operated torque wrenches, impact socket wrenches, spike setters and spring rail anchor wrenches, Rail fastener removal tools being hand-operated spike pullers, claw bars, pry bars, clip extractor tools, fast clip removal tools, spring clip removal tools, and anchor clip removers, Rail grinding stones being whetstones for hand tools, Manual rail pullers, torque wrenches; Tool for aluminothermic welding of railways, namely, hand-operated ramming tools for mold preparation, crucible holders not for laboratory use, mold clamping devices |
| Goods and Services | Battery-powered road-rail vehicles, namely, overhead line maintenance land vehicles, bridge and tunnel inspection land vehicles, welding vehicles, crane vehicles being land vehicles incorporating a crane and rescue land vehicles, and multi-purpose land vehicles; Road-rail land vehicles specifically designed for railway track inspection, Road-rail land vehicles for railway track maintenance, Road-rail land vehicles for railway welding operations, Specialized railway maintenance land vehicle attachments, namely, crane attachments for rail handling, Welding equipment mounting platforms for railway maintenance land vehicles, Material handling platforms specifically for railway maintenance land vehicles; Battery-powered trolleys; Battery-powered track motorcars; Electrically-powered motor vehicle, namely, electrically powered and hybrid road-rail multi-purpose vehicles; Trolley |
| International Class | 007 - Machines and machine tools; motors and engines (except for land vehicles); machine coupling and transmission components (except for land vehicles); agricultural implements other than hand-operated; incubators for eggs. |
| US Class Codes | 013, 019, 021, 023, 024, 031, 034, 035 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Thursday, April 24, 2025 |
| Primary Code | 007 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| International Class | 008 - Hand tools and implements (hand-operated); cutlery; side arms; razors. |
| US Class Codes | 023, 028, 044 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Thursday, April 24, 2025 |
| Primary Code | 008 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| International Class | 009 - 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 Codes | 021, 023, 026, 036, 038 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Thursday, April 24, 2025 |
| Primary Code | 009 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| International Class | 012 - Vehicles; apparatus for locomotion by land, air, or water. |
| US Class Codes | 019, 021, 023, 031, 035, 044 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Thursday, April 24, 2025 |
| Primary Code | 012 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Party Name | Goldschmidt Holding GmbH |
| Party Type | 10 - Original Applicant |
| Legal Entity Type | 27 - NOT AVAILABLE |
| Address | DE |
| Event Date | Event Description |
| Thursday, April 24, 2025 | SN ASSIGNED FOR SECT 66A APPL FROM IB |
| Sunday, April 27, 2025 | NEW APPLICATION OFFICE SUPPLIED DATA ENTERED |
| Monday, April 28, 2025 | APPLICATION FILING RECEIPT MAILED |
| Thursday, July 24, 2025 | ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER |
| Friday, August 1, 2025 | NON-FINAL ACTION WRITTEN |
| Saturday, August 2, 2025 | NON-FINAL ACTION (IB REFUSAL) PREPARED FOR REVIEW |
| Friday, September 12, 2025 | REFUSAL PROCESSED BY MPU |
| Saturday, September 13, 2025 | NON-FINAL ACTION MAILED - REFUSAL SENT TO IB |
| Friday, October 3, 2025 | REFUSAL PROCESSED BY IB |
| Friday, November 7, 2025 | LIMITATION OF GOODS RECEIVED FROM IB |
| Tuesday, January 6, 2026 | TEAS RESPONSE TO OFFICE ACTION RECEIVED |
| Tuesday, January 6, 2026 | CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE |
| Tuesday, January 6, 2026 | TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED |
| Tuesday, January 27, 2026 | FINAL REFUSAL WRITTEN |
| Tuesday, January 27, 2026 | FINAL REFUSAL E-MAILED |
| Tuesday, January 27, 2026 | NOTIFICATION OF FINAL REFUSAL EMAILED |
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | TEAS REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION RECEIVED |
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE |
| Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED |