Kathryn Morris UK

A couple of days ago (10 April 2012) the trademark process for the name Revival House, Kathryn’s production company, reached another milestone.

As we detailed previously, the period of time for people to raise objections ended in mid-March.  No opposition was filed so now it passes to the next stage: Notice Of Allowance or NOA.

The NOA means use of the trademark must be supplied in a Statement Of Use (SOU) to the USPTO within the next 6 months.  If, for whatever reason, that is insufficient time an Extension Request must be filed.  Extensions will only be issued for three years.  If a deadline passes without an SOU or Extension Request then the mark will be abandoned, as happened with Kathryn’s earlier company Hotplate Productions.

At the time of going to press the Trademarkia website has not been updated with this most recent change.

There it is (edited slightly for the sake of saving space).  Buried on page 1078 of a 1658 page long PDF document.  Boy that was a dull 1077 pages!  What?  ‘Search’ you say?  Curious…

That is the entry for Revival House, Kathryn’s new production company, as it appears in the USPTO Official Gazette, the fortnightly publication detailing new trademarks up for opposition.

Now there is a 30 day wait (from the 14th of Feb 2012 date of the document’s release) for people to register their opposition.

If my understanding is correct (and I’ve proven before it could easily not be) a further 8 weeks beyond that date a registration certificate will be issued.  Then the mark has to be used within 6 months and a statement to that effect filed with the USPTO.

To liven up this not-so-exciting process here is a countdown timer to the end of that 30 day period.  I’ve chosen 9am LA time (PST) on the day in question (15th March 2012) as the zero hour.

Now I know how to do a countdown timer expect it to appear again in future

Just before Xmas 2011 the trademark for Kathryn’s new production company, Revival House, was “approved for publication.”

The trademark covers the use of the name by a company for “Entertainment, namely, production of television shows and motion pictures.”

All though the lack of this approval would not have prevented the usage of the name, hopefully this small step is a good sign for things progressing in this area.  Fingers cross for more news soon.

For those interest in the details you can them on the Trademarkia website.