Southwestern Bell Toll Free Alternate Call Routing Trademark Details

This mark is dead with a status of Abandoned - No Statement of Use Filed. The last case file activity for this mark occured 22 years ago on Tuesday, July 24, 2001, according to the United State Patent & Trademark Office
Word Mark Southwestern Bell Toll Free Alternate Call Routing
Status Dead 606 — Abandoned - No Statement of Use Filed
Sbc Communications Inc.
175 E. Houston, Room 6A 50
San Antonio, Tx 78205
Sbc Communications Inc.
175 E. Houston, Room 6A 50
San Antonio, Tx 78205
Serial Number 75789501
Status Date Tuesday, July 24, 2001
Filing Date Tuesday, July 24, 2001
Attorney Chetuan L. Shaffer

Correspondent

CHETUAN L. SHAFFER
SBC TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES, INC
175 E. HOUSTON STREET, 12TH FLOOR
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78205

Case File Statements

Concurrent Use Statement Pursuant to the opinions of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in United States v. Western Electric Co., Inc., Civil Action No. 82-0192 dated July 8, 1983, and February 6, 1984, and section 2(d) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. Section 1052(d), the Applicant asserts a shared common heritage of rights and related goodwill in the "BELL" word element of the mark and the stylized "BELL" design with other former members of the Bell System. The applicant's right to exclusive use of the "BELL" design is nationwide, but is subject to the condition that the the applicant shall use the mark only in conjunction with the following modifier: "SOUTHWESTERN BELL". Use of the modifier shall be considered to be in conjunction with the mark if it is used in sufficient proximity to the mark such that a reasonable observer would normally view the mark and the modifier in a single visual impression and would recognize that both the mark and the modifier are used by the applicant. Applicant's right to the exclusive use of the "BELL" design is subject to the rights of the following companies, to which concurrent registrations in the mark have been issued, to use of the mark in conjunction with one or more of the modifiers specified in those registrations, and the applicant's right to exclusive use of the "BELL" word element of such composite marks is subject to the concurrent rights which the following companies have in the "BELL" mark as specified in the opinions of the United States District Court as cited above: American Information Technologies Corporation, 30 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606; Bell Atlantic Corporation, 1310 North Courthouse Road, Arlington, VA 22201; BellSouth Corporation, 1155 Peachtree street, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30367; Cincinnati Bell, Inc., 201 East Fourth Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202; Nynex Corporation, 1113 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, NY 10604; Pacific Telesis Group, 130 Kearny Street, San Francisco, CA 94108; The Southern New England Telephone Company, 227 Church Street, New Haven, CT 06506; Southwestern Bell Corporation, One Bell Center, St. Louis, MO 63101; and U.S. West, Inc., 6200 South Quebec Road, Englewood, CO 80111.
Disclaimer with Predetermined Text "Toll Free Alternate Call Routing"
Goods & Services Telecommunications services, namely, call routing services featuring the ability to define and store alternate call routing profiles for activation when needed
Section 2(f) Limitation Statement as to "SOUTHWESTERN"

Classifications

International Class Codes
038 — Class 38 includes mainly services allowing at least one person to communicate with another by a sensory means. Such services include those which: 1. allow one person to talk to another, 2. transmit messages from one person to another, and 3. place a person in oral or visual communication with another (radio and television).
U.S. Class Codes 100, 101, 104
Status 6 — Active
Status Date Tuesday, November 23, 1999
Primary Code 038

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