| Serial Number | 98301715 |
| Word Mark | SIGRAFINE |
| Filing Date | Wednesday, December 6, 2023 |
| Status | 661 - RESPONSE AFTER NON-FINAL ACTION - ENTERED |
| Status Date | Monday, September 30, 2024 |
| Registration Number | 0000000 |
| Registration Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Mark Drawing | 4 - Illustration: Drawing with word(s) / letter(s) / number(s) in Block form |
| Published for Opposition Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Goods and Services | Electric contacts; laboratory equipment, namely, crucibles used for continuous casting of metals as well as for single crystal growing in semiconductor and photovoltaic manufacturing; conductor bars in the nature of electric conductors; electrodes for discharging machining and their parts; silicon carbide (SiC) coated parts not being laboratory equipment, namely, crucibles, heaters, heat shields, reflectors, insulating components, boats and wafer carriers for polysilicon production and single crystal growing; electronic sliding contacts and their parts for power transmission; plates as parts of crucibles for use in hot zones as base, bottom, or side plates; anodes having a plate shape for use in electrolysis; anodes having a rod shape for use in electrolysis; setters, namely charging ports and structural parts of charging ports, for sintering processes; all the aforesaid goods made from graphite, carbon, or graphite and carbon. |
| Goods and Services | Non-metal guide rails made from carbon, graphite, or carbon and graphite |
| Goods and Services | Machine parts, namely, bearings and bushings, other than for vehicles; brushes being parts of electric motors and generators for machines and their parts; sliding rails, namely, machine parts in the nature of joints and joint parts for connecting sliding strips; electric pumps, and structural parts therefor; shaping dies, namely, dies for use with machine tools for container glass production; polychucks, namely, electrodes for reactors for polysilicon production, being machine parts; stators being parts of machines; internal combustion engine land vehicle parts, namely, distribution rotors for electric vacuum piston rings; electrodes in the form of stinger pencils being parts of machines for melting metal; machine parts, namely, dynamo brushes made from coal or bronze; intake and exhaust air flow vane assembly device for use in an internal combustion engine; sliding elements, namely, bearing inserts for machines made of carbon or graphite used for any wet or dry running application; parts of machines, namely, muffles and muffle tubes in the nature of shaped fittings being parts of machines used as heat resistant parts in high temperature furnaces; machine parts, namely, tubes in the nature of tubes being parts of machines for gas injection used for molten metal purification; machine parts, namely, ejector arms in the nature of a sweep out finger used for container glass manufacturing; molds being parts of machines for use in the manufacture of glass containers, metal containers and sintered metal containers; slide plates in the nature of covers and protective plates being machine parts; metal seal rings for use with turbomachinery and centrifuges; commutator disks in the nature of round disks being parts of fuel pumps for land vehicle engines; oil-free running steering discs, namely, steering discs which are motion control segments in the nature of perforated discs being parts of machines; piston rings; bushings for use as parts of machines; all the aforesaid goods made from graphite, carbon, or graphite and carbon. |
| Goods and Services | Non-metal pipe gaskets for pumps, compressors and turbochargers; non-metal sealing rings for use as connection seals; non-metallic semi-finished products of graphite-based material in form of, plates, rods, profiles, tubes and blocks for use as gaskets, seals, packings, and heat insulators; non-metal seals for use in furnaces and rotary kilns; non-metallic semi-finished plastic composite material in the form in the form of profiles used in the manufacture of tin bath walls and crucible plates used in die casting furnaces for production of multicrystalline silicon ingots; dynamic sealing elements of metal, namely, metal-sleeved gasket rings and metal-sleeved sealing rings; ring-shaped fittings of metal; metal sealing rings; metal sleeved rings; axial seal rings being metal sealing rings; metal sealing rings for sealing screw compressors; sealing rings shrunk in a metal sleeve used in sealing of compressors and pumps; heat and acoustical composite insulating shield for automobiles and machinery; all the foregoing goods made from graphite, carbon, or graphite and carbon. |
| Goods and Services | Coatings comprised of silicon carbide, metal, resin, salt, tantalum carbide and hydrocarbon; anti-corrosive coatings; anti-corrosive coatings comprised of silicon carbide, metal, resin, salt, tantalum carbide and hydrocarbon; heat-resistant coatings for industrial applications where elevated temperatures occur; penetrating sealer coatings for use on refractory materials, SiC epitaxy units; sealer coatings for use in photovoltaic and semiconductor industry in fluidized bed reactors, STC-TCS converters, Czochralski crystal pulling units, PECVD units, Si epitaxy units, and MOCVD reactors. |
| Goods and Services | Carbon for industrial purposes; graphite for industrial purposes; carbon powder for general industrial use; graphite powder for general industrial use; semi-finished blanks made from isostatic, extruded, vibration and die molded graphite, carbon, or graphite and carbon, namely, carbon and graphite in raw or semi-finished form for use in manufacture. |
| Goods and Services | Electric heaters for commercial use; furnaces; industrial furnaces; heating elements; muffles, namely, a structural part of a furnace or kiln in the nature of a receptacle in which things can be heated without contact with combustion products; muffle tubes for high temperature applications within furnaces namely, a structural part of a furnace in the nature of a tubular shaped receptacle in which things can be heated without contact with combustion products; heat reflecting structures being structural parts of furnaces. |
| International Class | 001 - Chemicals used in industry, science and photography, as well as in agriculture, horticulture and forestry; unprocessed artificial resins; unprocessed plastics; manures; fire extinguishing compositions; tempering and soldering preparations; chemical substances for preserving foodstuffs; tanning substances; adhesives used in industry. |
| US Class Codes | 001, 005, 006, 010, 026, 046 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Wednesday, December 6, 2023 |
| Primary Code | 001 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | Wednesday, September 4, 2013 |
| First Use In Commerce Date | Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
| International Class | 002 - Paints, varnishes, lacquers; preservatives against rust and against deterioration of wood; colorants; mordants; raw natural resins; metals in foil and powder form for painters, decorators, printers and artists. |
| US Class Codes | 006, 011, 016 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Wednesday, December 6, 2023 |
| Primary Code | 002 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | Wednesday, September 4, 2013 |
| First Use In Commerce Date | Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
| 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 | Wednesday, December 6, 2023 |
| Primary Code | 007 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | Wednesday, September 4, 2013 |
| First Use In Commerce Date | Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
| 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 | Wednesday, December 6, 2023 |
| Primary Code | 009 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | Wednesday, September 4, 2013 |
| First Use In Commerce Date | Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
| International Class | 011 - Apparatus for lighting, heating, steam generating, cooking, refrigerating, drying, ventilating, water supply, and sanitary purposes. |
| US Class Codes | 013, 021, 023, 024, 031, 034 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Wednesday, December 6, 2023 |
| Primary Code | 011 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | Wednesday, September 4, 2013 |
| First Use In Commerce Date | Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
| International Class | 017 - Rubber, gutta-percha, gum, asbestos, mica and goods made from these materials and not included in other classes; plastics in extruded form for use in manufacture; packing, stopping and insulating materials; flexible pipes, not of metal. |
| US Class Codes | 001, 005, 012, 013, 035, 050 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Wednesday, December 6, 2023 |
| Primary Code | 017 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | Wednesday, September 4, 2013 |
| First Use In Commerce Date | Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
| International Class | 019 - Building materials (non-metallic); nonmetallic rigid pipes for building; asphalt, pitch and bitumen; nonmetallic transportable buildings; monuments, not of metal. |
| US Class Codes | 001, 012, 033, 050 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Wednesday, December 6, 2023 |
| Primary Code | 019 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | Wednesday, September 4, 2013 |
| First Use In Commerce Date | Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
| Party Name | SGL CARBON SE |
| Party Type | 10 - Original Applicant |
| Legal Entity Type | 99 - Other |
| Address | Wiesbaden 65201 DE |
| Event Date | Event Description |
| Wednesday, December 6, 2023 | NEW APPLICATION ENTERED |
| Sunday, March 3, 2024 | NEW APPLICATION OFFICE SUPPLIED DATA ENTERED |
| Saturday, July 13, 2024 | NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED |
| Friday, July 5, 2024 | ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER |
| Saturday, July 13, 2024 | NON-FINAL ACTION WRITTEN |
| Saturday, July 13, 2024 | NOTIFICATION OF NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED |
| Monday, September 30, 2024 | CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE |
| Monday, September 30, 2024 | TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED |
| Monday, September 30, 2024 | TEAS RESPONSE TO OFFICE ACTION RECEIVED |