R LINE

What this means for you

Registered since 21 Sept 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 21 Sept 2030: the §71 ten-year affidavit of use).

Record

Serial number

79078458

Registration number

3850256

Mark type

Design + words

Filed

24 Sept 2009

Published for opposition

06 Jul 2010

Registered

21 Sept 2010

Next maintenance filing

§71 ten-year affidavit of use, due by 21 Sept 2030 (grace period to 21 Mar 2031)

Attorney of record

Stewart L Gitler

Goods and services

• Class 012 — Vehicles: Land vehicles and structural parts therefor; [ airplanes, helicopters, and structural parts therefor; boats and structural parts therefor; ] motorized land vehicles and structural parts therefor; [ trailers and semi trailers for vehicles and structural parts therefor; ] engines for land vehicles, rims for land vehicle wheels and their structural parts [, alarm systems for vehicles; anti-theft devices for vehicles; alarm systems for motorized land vehicles; anti-theft devices for motorized land vehicles ]
• Class 035 — Advertising and business services: [ Retail and wholesale business management services concerning motor vehicles and their parts and fittings; retail and wholesale business management services for mail-order business concerning motor vehicles and their parts and fittings; retail and wholesale business management services via Internet concerning motor vehicles and their parts and fittings; bringing together, but not transporting, a variety of motor vehicles and parts and fittings therefor for the benefit of others, thereby enabling customers to view and purchase the goods in a retail outlet; negotiation of contracts for the benefit of others about sale and purchase of motor vehicles and their parts and/or fittings; business management of a vehicle fleet for others; presentation of goods in communications media for retail purposes; providing on-line auction services; consumer advice, namely, providing commercial information and consulting services to consumers about trade and business activities; office work, namely, administrative handling of purchase orders; negotiation of contracts for the benefit of others about sale and purchase of goods; consultancy and assistance in organization and management of retail and business companies; advertising services; business management; business administration; office work; personnel recruitment, personnel management consultancy, business management consultancy, public relations, radio and television advertising services; organization of trade fairs for commercial or advertising purposes; collecting and arranging of relevant press articles for others ]
• Class 037 — Building construction and repair services: [ Reconstruction, repair, servicing, dismantling, cleaning, maintenance and varnishing of vehicles and their parts and motors and their parts, vehicle repair in the course of vehicle breakdown service; refinement and tuning of automobiles, namely, automobile detailing; customization of automobiles ]

Owner

• Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, DE
• Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, DE
• Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, DE

Board proceedings on this mark

The owner also pleads this mark in 1 other Board proceeding.

Prosecution history

• 04 Apr 2025 — CHANGE OF NAME/ADDRESS REC'D FROM IB
• 01 Jun 2022 — NOTICE OF SUIT
• 18 Feb 2022 — NOTICE OF SUIT
• 18 Aug 2021 — INVALIDATION REVIEWED - NO ACTION REQUIRED BY OFFICE
• 02 Aug 2021 — PARTIAL INVALIDATION OF REG EXT PROTECTION CREATED
• 02 Dec 2020 — NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF SEC. 71 - E-MAILED
• 02 Dec 2020 — REGISTERED-SEC.71 ACCEPTED
• 25 Nov 2020 — CASE ASSIGNED TO POST REGISTRATION PARALEGAL
• 06 Aug 2020 — TEAS SECTION 71 RECEIVED
• 17 Apr 2020 — NOTICE OF SUIT
• 24 Oct 2019 — INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION RENEWED
• 21 Sept 2019 — COURTESY REMINDER - SEC. 71 (10-YR) E-MAILED
• 03 Jun 2017 — PARTIAL INVALIDATION PROCESSED BY THE IB
• 08 Apr 2017 — PARTIAL INVALIDATION OF REG EXT PROTECTION SENT TO IB
• 08 Apr 2017 — INVALIDATION PROCESSED