Trademark Overview
On Monday, March 25, 2002, a trademark application was filed for STEP with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The USPTO has given the STEP trademark a serial number of 76388966. The federal status of this trademark filing is ABANDONED - FAILURE TO RESPOND OR LATE RESPONSE as of Friday, May 16, 2003. This trademark is owned by Knowledge Partners Inc./KPI. The STEP trademark is filed in the Advertising, Business and Retail Services category with the following description:
KPI is an IT consulting firm specializing in Information Architecture and the emerging approach to software development by focusing on Business Rule principles KPI has developed an approach and a methodology to manage the business rules during this software development process The service, the term STEP, is used to describe the four principles of our business rules approach or methodology Separate rule, Trace rules, Externalize rules and Position rules for change The term STEP will be primarily used on printed documents and papers
