| Serial Number | 79395405 |
| Word Mark | VR MEMORIAL |
| Filing Date | Friday, December 22, 2023 |
| Status | 661 - RESPONSE AFTER NON-FINAL ACTION - ENTERED |
| Status Date | Saturday, August 24, 2024 |
| Registration Number | 0000000 |
| Registration Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Mark Drawing | 5 - Drawing with word(s) / letter(s) / number(s) in Stylized form |
| Published for Opposition Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Description of Mark | The mark consists of the wording "VR MEMORIAL" in a stylized purple font with particular letters outlined in gray. Specifically, the letters "VR" are partially outlined in gray; the second "M" and the letter "R" in the wording "MEMORIAL" are outlined in gray. |
| Goods and Services | Downloadable virtual reality software for allowing users to virtually experience the places, people, and events associated with persons or animals who have died or who are physically distant from them; downloadable virtual and augmented reality software for allowing users to virtually experience the places, people, and events associated with persons or animals who have died or who are physically distant from them; downloadable software for providing access to an online virtual environment; downloadable software for navigating virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR) environments; downloadable software enabling users to experience visualization, editing and immersion in virtual and augmented reality; downloadable software enabling third parties to purchase online services and applications; downloadable interactive software using artificial intelligence for allowing users to virtually experience the places, people, and events associated with persons or animals who have died or who are physically distant from them; downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application for ordering virtual goods and services, namely, digital memorial memorabilia, urns, candles, flowers, funeral and cremation services for use in virtual worlds; downloadable computer software for providing virtual tours, displaying interactive elements, allowing the user to interact with the various interactive elements displayed, namely, video, URLs, photographs, audio clips, streams, podcasts and third-party web applications; downloadable computer software for creating searchable databases of information and data; downloadable payment software for use in the virtual world or a virtual online environment; virtual reality glasses |
| Goods and Services | Providing access to multimedia content on databases, to databases, websites and website portals on the Internet; provide access to a virtual computing environment that is accessible via the Internet, namely, providing multiple user access to computer programs for cloud computing and virtual computing; Telecommunication services, namely, interactive transmission of videos, photos and other multimedia via digital wireless networks; Provision of access to electronic sites for uploading and downloading of videos, audio files, films, photographs, images, text and user-generated content |
| Pseudo Mark | VIRTUAL REALITY MEMORIAL |
| Indication of Colors claimed | The color(s) purple and gray is/are claimed as a feature of the mark. |
| Goods and Services | Promotional services, namely, online advertising and/or advertising in virtual computer worlds; arranging subscriptions to telecommunication services for others; compilation and systematisation of information in computer databanks; provision of computerised business statistics, namely, providing computerized statistical information for business purposes; compilation of statistics relating to advertising; affiliate marketing; operating a virtual store in the nature of online retail store services rendered in a virtual environment featuring physical goods and virtual goods, namely, furniture, jewelry, sunglasses, clothing, cosmetics and personal care items, computer software, homes, travel services, household appliances and household utensils, memorial memorabilia, urns, candles, flowers; online retail store services featuring virtual goods, namely memorial memorabilia, urns, candles, flowers; providing business information and advice regarding the aforementioned services, also provided via electronic networks, such as the Internet |
| Goods and Services | Organization of online meetings in the nature of funeral arrangement services for relatives to commemorate the death of near and dear ones, both people and animals, in a virtual world or online environment |
| NOT AVAILABLE | VR MEMORIAL |
| Goods and Services | Hosting of electronic commerce platforms in the virtual world, namely, providing a web hosting platform for e-commerce in the virtual world; IT services for the creation of an online virtual environment; providing artificial intelligence computer programs on data networks, namely, providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software and applications using artificial intelligence (AI) for allowing users to virtually experience the places, people, and events associated with persons or animals who have died or who are physically distant from them; hosting of e- commerce platforms on the Internet, namely, providing a web hosting platform for e- commerce; design of computer databases; development, updating and maintenance of software and database systems; Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) services featuring computer software for providing proprietary databases, information, data analysis and management tools; Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) featuring computer software platforms for providing proprietary databases, information, data analysis and management tools; programming of software, software applications, web applications, software for access to databases and portals for others; application service provider (ASP) services featuring software that enables users to upload, download, post, display, share or provide electronic information over communications networks; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software interface for creating personalized on-line information services |
| International Class | 038 - Services allowing people to communicate with another by a sensory means. |
| US Class Codes | 100, 101, 104 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Wednesday, May 8, 2024 |
| Primary Code | 038 |
| 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 | Wednesday, May 8, 2024 |
| Primary Code | 009 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| International Class | 035 - Advertising; business management; business administration; office functions. |
| US Class Codes | 100, 101, 102 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Wednesday, May 8, 2024 |
| Primary Code | 035 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| International Class | 042 - 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 Codes | 100, 101 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Wednesday, May 8, 2024 |
| Primary Code | 042 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| International Class | 045 - Legal services; security services for the protection of property and individuals; personal and social services rendered by others to meet the needs of individuals. |
| US Class Codes | 100, 101 |
| Class Status Code | 6 - Active |
| Class Status Date | Wednesday, May 8, 2024 |
| Primary Code | 045 |
| First Use Anywhere Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| First Use In Commerce Date | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Party Name | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Party Type | 10 - Original Applicant |
| Legal Entity Type | 01 - Individual |
| Address | BE |
| Event Date | Event Description |
| Thursday, May 9, 2024 | SN ASSIGNED FOR SECT 66A APPL FROM IB |
| Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | APPLICATION FILING RECEIPT MAILED |
| Tuesday, July 23, 2024 | ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER |
| Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | NEW APPLICATION OFFICE SUPPLIED DATA ENTERED |
| Wednesday, July 31, 2024 | NON-FINAL ACTION WRITTEN |
| Thursday, August 1, 2024 | NON-FINAL ACTION (IB REFUSAL) PREPARED FOR REVIEW |
| Monday, August 12, 2024 | REFUSAL PROCESSED BY MPU |
| Monday, August 12, 2024 | NON-FINAL ACTION MAILED - REFUSAL SENT TO IB |
| Saturday, August 24, 2024 | TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED |
| Saturday, August 24, 2024 | CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE |
| Saturday, August 24, 2024 | TEAS RESPONSE TO OFFICE ACTION RECEIVED |
| Thursday, August 1, 2024 | NON-FINAL ACTION (IB REFUSAL) PREPARED FOR REVIEW |
| Sunday, September 1, 2024 | REFUSAL PROCESSED BY IB |