SPARK PRESS
Live / Registered — Registered — Sections 8 & 15 accepted and acknowledged (as of 28 Aug 2023)
What this means for you
Registered since 07 Mar 2017. 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 is due by 07 Mar 2027, and its filing window is open now).
Record
- Serial number
- 86913697
- Registration number
- 5154168
- Mark type
- Word mark
- Filed
- 19 Feb 2016
- Published for opposition
- 19 Jul 2016
- Registered
- 07 Mar 2017
- Next maintenance filing
- §8 & §9 renewal, due by 07 Mar 2027 (grace period to 07 Sept 2027)
- Attorney of record
- Erik M. Pelton
Goods and services
- Class 041 — Education and entertainment services: Publishing fiction, non fiction, and educational books and guides for children and families
Owner
- Spark Productions, LLC, Chapel Hill, NC, US
- Spark Productions, LLC, Chapel Hill, NC, US
- Spark Productions, LLC, Chapel Hill, NC, US
Board proceedings on this mark
- Extension of Time to Oppose No. 86913697 — SparkNotes LLC v. Spark Productions, LLC, filed 10 Aug 2016 (Terminated)
Prosecution history
- 07 Mar 2026 — COURTESY REMINDER - SEC. 8 (10-YR)/SEC. 9 E-MAILED
- 28 Aug 2023 — NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF SEC. 8 & 15 - E-MAILED
- 28 Aug 2023 — REGISTERED - SEC. 8 (6-YR) ACCEPTED & SEC. 15 ACK.
- 28 Aug 2023 — CASE ASSIGNED TO POST REGISTRATION PARALEGAL
- 28 Feb 2023 — TEAS SECTION 8 & 15 RECEIVED
- 07 Mar 2022 — COURTESY REMINDER - SEC. 8 (6-YR) E-MAILED
- 07 Mar 2017 — REGISTERED-PRINCIPAL REGISTER
- 31 Jan 2017 — EXTENSION OF TIME TO OPPOSE PROCESS - TERMINATED
- 10 Aug 2016 — EXTENSION OF TIME TO OPPOSE RECEIVED
- 19 Jul 2016 — OFFICIAL GAZETTE PUBLICATION CONFIRMATION E-MAILED
- 19 Jul 2016 — PUBLISHED FOR OPPOSITION
- 29 Jun 2016 — NOTIFICATION OF NOTICE OF PUBLICATION E-MAILED
- 13 Jun 2016 — APPROVED FOR PUB - PRINCIPAL REGISTER
- 13 Jun 2016 — EXAMINER'S AMENDMENT ENTERED
- 13 Jun 2016 — NOTIFICATION OF EXAMINERS AMENDMENT E-MAILED