BLACKSTAR
Live / Registered — Registered — Section 71 accepted (as of 15 Jul 2025)
What this means for you
Registered since 03 Mar 2015. 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 03 Mar 2035: the §71 ten-year affidavit of use).
Record
- Serial number
- 79112207
- Registration number
- 4693711
- Mark type
- Word mark
- Filed
- 11 Nov 2011
- Published for opposition
- 15 Jul 2014
- Registered
- 03 Mar 2015
- Next maintenance filing
- §71 ten-year affidavit of use, due by 03 Mar 2035 (grace period to 03 Sept 2035)
- Attorney of record
- Laura J. Winston
Goods and services
- Class 009 — Scientific and electric apparatus: Apparatus for recording, transmission, or reproduction of sound; computer software for processing and editing electric guitar signals and software downloadable from the internet for processing and editing electric guitar signals; computer hardware and peripherals; electronic audio modifiers, signal processors, interfaces, tone modules, controllers, effects processors, and effects pedals for use with musical instruments, amplifiers, and sound speakers; computer hardware for recording, modelling, reproducing, and transmitting sound; digital interfaces for recording, modelling, reproducing, and transmitting sound; amplifiers for musical instruments and parts and accessories for use in connection therewith; computer software, namely, audio modification software, audio recording software, audio modelling software, and audio editing software; computer software to generate and control musical tones from microphones and musical instruments; computer software for accessing pre-recorded music; computer software for use in downloading, uploading, accessing, recording, editing, storing, and playing music, tones and sounds and for providing access to websites containing libraries of music, tones and sounds
- Class 016 — Paper goods and printed matter: Paper, cardboard and goods made from these materials, namely, point of sale promotional displays, business cards; printed matter, namely, printed awards, printed calendars; photographs; stationery; packaging materials, namely, cardboard containers, packing papers; printed publications, namely, magazines, informational brochures and newsletters in the field of electric guitar amplification, extension speaker cabinets, effects processors and associated accessories; posters; stickers
- Class 025 — Clothing: Clothing, namely, shirts, t-shirts, sweat-shirts, hooded sweatshirts; [ footwear; ] headgear, namely, caps and hats
Owner
- Blackstar Amplification Ltd, Northamptonshire, GB
- Blackstar Amplification Ltd, GB
- Blackstar Amplification Ltd, GB
Prior registrations
Board proceedings on this mark
- Extension of Time to Oppose No. 79112207 — Black Star LLC v. Blackstar Amplification Ltd, filed 14 Aug 2014 (Terminated)
Prosecution history
- 15 Mar 2026 — PARTIAL INVALIDATION OF REG EXT PROTECTION CREATED
- 15 Jul 2025 — NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF SEC. 71 - E-MAILED
- 15 Jul 2025 — REGISTERED-SEC.71 ACCEPTED
- 14 Jul 2025 — CASE ASSIGNED TO POST REGISTRATION PARALEGAL
- 26 Jun 2025 — NEW REPRESENTATIVE AT IB RECEIVED
- 10 Jun 2025 — TEAS CHANGE OF CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED
- 10 Jun 2025 — TEAS CHANGE OF DOMESTIC REPRESENTATIVES ADDRESS
- 10 Jun 2025 — ATTORNEY/DOM.REP.REVOKED AND/OR APPOINTED
- 10 Jun 2025 — TEAS REVOKE/APP/CHANGE ADDR OF ATTY/DOM REP RECEIVED
- 10 Jun 2025 — APPLICANT/CORRESPONDENCE CHANGES (NON-RESPONSIVE) ENTERED
- 10 Jun 2025 — TEAS CHANGE OF OWNER ADDRESS RECEIVED
- 08 Apr 2025 — TEAS SECTION 71 RECEIVED
- 03 Mar 2024 — COURTESY REMINDER - SEC. 71 (10-YR) E-MAILED
- 18 Sept 2022 — NEW REPRESENTATIVE AT IB RECEIVED
- 26 Nov 2021 — INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION RENEWED