SUNSTONE
Live / Registered — Registered — Sections 8 & 15 accepted and acknowledged (as of 23 Feb 2026)
What this means for you
Registered since 03 Dec 2019. 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 Dec 2029: the §8 & §9 renewal).
Record
- Serial number
- 86939733
- Registration number
- 5926834
- Mark type
- Word mark
- Filed
- 14 Mar 2016
- Published for opposition
- 07 Mar 2017
- Registered
- 03 Dec 2019
- Next maintenance filing
- §8 & §9 renewal, due by 03 Dec 2029 (grace period to 03 Jun 2030)
- Attorney of record
- Connie L. Ellerbach
Goods and services
- Class 035 — Advertising and business services: Business formation consultation; business management consulting and business advisory services; business planning consultation; business operations consultation; marketing and sales consultation; business acquisition and expansion consultation; new business development consultation; business management consulting and business advisory services to start-up, emerging and growth companies; all of the foregoing services primarily for growth equity
- Class 036 — Insurance and financial services: Financial information and financial management services; capital investment services; financial investment in the field of venture capital services generally in the growth equity segment thereof; financial investment in the field of growth equity; financial investment in the field of private equity; providing equity and debt financing to emerging and growth companies; providing venture capital services generally in the growth equity segment, development capital, debt capital, private equity and investment funding; financial consultation services and financial planning services for emerging and growth companies; fund management services, namely, management of venture capital services generally in the growth equity segment, growth equity and private equity funds; fund advisory services, namely, providing investment advice to investors in venture capital services generally in the growth equity segment, growth equity and private equity funds; financial portfolio asset management services, namely, investment and portfolio management of emerging and growth companies; financial management consulting and financial advisory services to emerging and growth companies; facilitating liquidity events for emerging and growth companies, in the nature of financial advice regarding financings, stock or debt offerings, recapitalizations, buyouts, mergers or acquisitions; financial consultation; financial planning consultation; all of the foregoing services primarily for growth equity
Owner
- SUNSTONE PARTNERS MANAGEMENT, LLC, SAN MATEO, CA, US
- SUNSTONE PARTNERS MANAGEMENT, LLC, SAN MATEO, CA, US
- TC Growth Management, L.L.C., Palo Alto, CA, US
- TC Growth Management, L.L.C., Palo Alto, CA, US
Board proceedings on this mark
- Opposition No. 91236462 — Sunstone Capital A/S v. Sunstone Partners Management, LLC, filed 01 Sept 2017 (Terminated)
- Extension of Time to Oppose No. 86939733 — Sunstone Capital A/S v. TC Growth Management, L.L.C., filed 03 Apr 2017 (Terminated)
The owner also pleads this mark in 2 other Board proceedings.
Prosecution history
- 23 Feb 2026 — NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF SEC. 8 & 15 - E-MAILED
- 23 Feb 2026 — REGISTERED - SEC. 8 (6-YR) ACCEPTED & SEC. 15 ACK.
- 23 Feb 2026 — CASE ASSIGNED TO POST REGISTRATION PARALEGAL
- 20 Nov 2025 — TEAS SECTION 8 & 15 RECEIVED
- 03 Dec 2024 — COURTESY REMINDER - SEC. 8 (6-YR) E-MAILED
- 25 Oct 2023 — TEAS WITHDRAWAL OF ATTORNEY RECEIVED-FIRM RETAINS
- 25 Oct 2023 — TEAS CHANGE OF CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED
- 25 Oct 2023 — ATTORNEY/DOM.REP.REVOKED AND/OR APPOINTED
- 25 Oct 2023 — TEAS REVOKE/APP/CHANGE ADDR OF ATTY/DOM REP RECEIVED
- 25 Oct 2023 — APPLICANT/CORRESPONDENCE CHANGES (NON-RESPONSIVE) ENTERED
- 25 Oct 2023 — TEAS CHANGE OF OWNER ADDRESS RECEIVED
- 03 Dec 2019 — REGISTERED-PRINCIPAL REGISTER
- 26 Oct 2019 — NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF STATEMENT OF USE E-MAILED
- 25 Oct 2019 — ALLOWED PRINCIPAL REGISTER - SOU ACCEPTED
- 25 Oct 2019 — STATEMENT OF USE PROCESSING COMPLETE