HOBBIT
Live / Registered — Registered and renewed (as of 29 Jun 2020)
What this means for you
Registered since 20 Apr 2010. The owner can stop confusingly similar uses in the classes it covers; it stays on the register as long as the owner keeps up the maintenance filings (next due by 20 Apr 2030: the §8 & §9 renewal).
Record
- Serial number
- 78972525
- Registration number
- 3779632
- Mark type
- Word mark
- Filed
- 12 Sept 2006
- Published for opposition
- 03 Apr 2007
- Registered
- 20 Apr 2010
- Current term from
- 20 Apr 2020
- Next maintenance filing
- §8 & §9 renewal, due by 20 Apr 2030 (grace period to 20 Oct 2030)
- Attorney of record
- Megan Martin
Goods and services
- Class 030 — Staple foods: tea
Owner
- MIDDLE-EARTH ENTERPRISES, LLC, Livermore, CA, US
- Saul Zaentz Company, The, Berkeley, CA, US
- Saul Zaentz Company, The, Berkeley, CA, US
- The Saul Zaentz Company, Berkeley, CA, US
Prior registrations
Board proceedings on this mark
The owner also pleads this mark in 2 other Board proceedings.
Prosecution history
- 03 Sept 2025 — TEAS CHANGE OF CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED
- 03 Sept 2025 — ATTORNEY/DOM.REP.REVOKED AND/OR APPOINTED
- 03 Sept 2025 — TEAS REVOKE/APP/CHANGE ADDR OF ATTY/DOM REP RECEIVED
- 03 Sept 2025 — APPLICANT/CORRESPONDENCE CHANGES (NON-RESPONSIVE) ENTERED
- 03 Sept 2025 — TEAS CHANGE OF OWNER ADDRESS RECEIVED
- 18 Sept 2023 — TEAS WITHDRAWAL OF ATTORNEY RECEIVED-FIRM RETAINS
- 18 Sept 2023 — TEAS CHANGE OF CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED
- 18 Sept 2023 — ATTORNEY/DOM.REP.REVOKED AND/OR APPOINTED
- 18 Sept 2023 — TEAS REVOKE/APP/CHANGE ADDR OF ATTY/DOM REP RECEIVED
- 18 Sept 2023 — APPLICANT/CORRESPONDENCE CHANGES (NON-RESPONSIVE) ENTERED
- 18 Sept 2023 — TEAS CHANGE OF OWNER ADDRESS RECEIVED
- 07 Dec 2022 — AUTOMATIC UPDATE OF ASSIGNMENT OF OWNERSHIP
- 29 Jun 2020 — NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF SEC. 8 & 9 - E-MAILED
- 29 Jun 2020 — REGISTERED AND RENEWED (FIRST RENEWAL - 10 YRS)
- 29 Jun 2020 — REGISTERED - SEC. 8 (10-YR) ACCEPTED/SEC. 9 GRANTED