RIVSMART
Live / Registered — Registered — partial Section 8 accepted (as of 06 Sept 2025)
What this means for you
Registered since 02 Jan 2018. 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 02 Jan 2028: the §8 & §9 renewal).
Record
- Serial number
- 87277679
- Registration number
- 5368020
- Mark type
- Word mark
- Filed
- 22 Dec 2016
- Published for opposition
- 17 Oct 2017
- Registered
- 02 Jan 2018
- Next maintenance filing
- §8 & §9 renewal, due by 02 Jan 2028 (grace period to 02 Jul 2028)
- Attorney of record
- Melissa A. Alcantara
Goods and services
- Class 007 — Machines and machine tools: Machines for processing metal, wood and plastic; riveting machines, power-operated rivet guns being parts of machines; power-operated machine tools for processing rivets, namely, blind rivets; riveting apparatus powered by independent power and/or a motor, namely, battery-operated riveters, [ air-powered riveters, pneumatic riveters, hydraulic riveters, electric riveters, ] blind rivet guns, [ blind rivet nut fitting guns, ] battery-operated blind rivet guns, battery-operated blind rivet nut fitting guns; pneumatically-operated blind rivet guns; hydraulically-operated blind rivet guns; pneumatically-operated blind rivet nut guns and hydraulically-operated blind rivet nut guns
- Class 008 — Hand tools: [Nail punches; non-powered riveting hammers; hand tools, namely, riveters and fullers; hand-operated blind rivet setting apparatus, namely, hand-operated riveting pliers ]
Owner
- HONSEL DISTRIBUTION GMBH & CO. KG, NEUMÜNSTER, DE
- VVG-Befestigungstechnik GmbH & Co., Neumünster, DE
- VVG-Befestigungstechnik GmbH & Co., Neumünster, DE
- VVG-Befestigungstechnik GmbH & Co., Neumünster, DE
Prosecution history
- 06 Sept 2025 — NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF SEC. 8 - E-MAILED
- 06 Sept 2025 — REGISTERED - PARTIAL SEC. 8 (6-YR) ACCEPTED
- 05 Sept 2025 — TEAS RESPONSE TO OFFICE ACTION-POST REG RECEIVED
- 19 Jun 2025 — TEAS CHANGE OF CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED
- 19 Jun 2025 — ATTORNEY/DOM.REP.REVOKED AND/OR APPOINTED
- 19 Jun 2025 — TEAS REVOKE/APP/CHANGE ADDR OF ATTY/DOM REP RECEIVED
- 06 Mar 2025 — POST REGISTRATION ACTION MAILED - SEC. 8
- 05 Mar 2025 — CASE ASSIGNED TO POST REGISTRATION PARALEGAL
- 02 Jul 2024 — TEAS SECTION 8 RECEIVED
- 02 Jan 2023 — COURTESY REMINDER - SEC. 8 (6-YR) E-MAILED
- 04 Aug 2021 — AUTOMATIC UPDATE OF ASSIGNMENT OF OWNERSHIP
- 02 Jan 2018 — REGISTERED-PRINCIPAL REGISTER
- 17 Oct 2017 — OFFICIAL GAZETTE PUBLICATION CONFIRMATION E-MAILED
- 17 Oct 2017 — PUBLISHED FOR OPPOSITION
- 27 Sept 2017 — NOTIFICATION OF NOTICE OF PUBLICATION E-MAILED