SOFTBANK
Live / Registered — Registered — Sections 8 & 15 accepted and acknowledged (as of 12 Oct 2023)
What this means for you
Registered since 12 Jul 2016. 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 (the §8 & §9 renewal was filed 12 Oct 2026 and is awaiting the USPTO's acceptance).
Record
- Serial number
- 85808802
- Registration number
- 4995646
- Mark type
- Design + words
- Filed
- 21 Dec 2012
- Published for opposition
- 24 Sept 2013
- Registered
- 12 Jul 2016
- Next maintenance filing
- §8 & §9 renewal, filed 12 Oct 2026 — awaiting the USPTO's acceptance
- Attorney of record
- Jeffrey Van Hoosear
Goods and services
- Class 036 — Insurance and financial services: [ Credit card services; ] financial information; financing services; funds investment [ ; insurance brokerage; insurance information; exchanging money; real estate agencies; real estate management; securities brokerage; stock exchange price quotations; stocks and bonds brokerage; surety services; issue of tokens of value; electronic funds transfer ]
- Class 041 — Education and entertainment services: [ Amusement parks; ] arranging and conducting conferences in the field of computers and telecommunication; arranging and conducting of seminars in the field of computers and telecommunications; [ booking of seats for shows; providing cinema facilities; ] education in the field of computers and telecommunications rendered through correspondence courses; information about education; educational services in the nature of course at the university level; [ entertainment information in the fields of baseball games and horse races; entertainment information in the field of online gaming; entertainment services, namely, providing online computer games; entertainment services, namely, providing non-downloadable prerecorded music and information in the field of music, all on-line via a global computer network; entertainment services, namely, providing non-downloadable prerecorded movies and information in the field of movies all on-line via a global computer network; presentation of live performances; physical education services; production of radio and television programs; providing amusement arcade services; providing karaoke services; providing on-line electronic publications, namely, books and magazines in the field of entertainment, sports, computers and telecommunications; publication of books; publication of electronic books and journals on-line; radio entertainment; recreation information in the nature of recreational park information; teaching at university or college; translation ]
Owner
- SOFTBANK GROUP CORP., TOKYO, JP
- SOFTBANK CORP., Tokyo, JP
- SOFTBANK CORP., Tokyo, JP
Prior registrations
Board proceedings on this mark
- Opposition No. 91214608 — Visa International Service Association v. SoftBank Group Corp., filed 22 Jan 2014 (Terminated)
- Extension of Time to Oppose No. 85808802 — Visa International Service Association v. SOFTBANK CORP., filed 21 Oct 2013 (Terminated)
The owner also pleads this mark in 1 other Board proceeding.
Prosecution history
- 12 Oct 2026 — TEAS SECTION 8 & 9 RECEIVED
- 12 Jul 2025 — COURTESY REMINDER - SEC. 8 (10-YR)/SEC. 9 E-MAILED
- 14 Nov 2023 — NOTICE OF UPDATED REGISTRATION CONFIRMATION EMAILED
- 12 Oct 2023 — NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF SEC. 8 & 15 - E-MAILED
- 12 Oct 2023 — REGISTERED - SEC. 8 (6-YR) ACCEPTED & SEC. 15 ACK.
- 12 Oct 2023 — AMENDMENT UNDER SECTION 7 - PROCESSED
- 10 Oct 2023 — CASE ASSIGNED TO POST REGISTRATION PARALEGAL
- 22 Feb 2023 — TEAS SECTION 7 REQUEST RECEIVED
- 11 Jan 2023 — TEAS SECTION 8 & 15 RECEIVED
- 09 Dec 2021 — APPLICANT/CORRESPONDENCE CHANGES (NON-RESPONSIVE) ENTERED
- 09 Dec 2021 — TEAS CHANGE OF CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED
- 09 Dec 2021 — TEAS CHANGE OF DOMESTIC REPRESENTATIVES ADDRESS
- 09 Dec 2021 — ATTORNEY/DOM.REP.REVOKED AND/OR APPOINTED
- 09 Dec 2021 — TEAS REVOKE/APP/CHANGE ADDR OF ATTY/DOM REP RECEIVED
- 09 Dec 2021 — TEAS CHANGE OF OWNER ADDRESS RECEIVED