PEN COLLECTORS OF AMERICA
Live / Registered — Registered — Section 8 accepted (as of 06 Oct 2025)
What this means for you
Registered since 18 Dec 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 18 Dec 2028: the §8 & §9 renewal).
Record
- Serial number
- 87889685
- Registration number
- 5631856
- Mark type
- Slogan / phrase
- Filed
- 23 Apr 2018
- Published for opposition
- 02 Oct 2018
- Registered
- 18 Dec 2018
- Next maintenance filing
- §8 & §9 renewal, due by 18 Dec 2028 (grace period to 18 Jun 2029)
- Attorney of record
- Jeffrey A. Smith
Goods and services
- Class 035 — Advertising and business services: Association services, namely, promoting the interests of writing instrument enthusiasts, writing instrument historians, writing instrument collectors, writing instrument event organizers, writing instrument and writing instrument-related ephemera preservation supporters, writing instrument collection development supporters, [ writing instrument collection distributors, writing instrument evaluators, ] writing instrument educators, handwriting proponents [ , handwriting instructors ] and handwriting historians
- Class 041 — Education and entertainment services: Educational services, namely, providing [ classes, programs and ] presentations in the fields of writing instrument history and development, writing instrument repair and maintenance, vintage writing instrument identification, collectable writing instrument and writing instrument-related ephemera sources [ and handwriting improvement ] ; reference libraries of literature and documentary records; providing a website featuring an on-line reference library of literature and documentary records in the fields of writing instrument history and development, [ writing instrument repair and maintenance, ] vintage writing instrument identification, collectable writing instrument and writing instrument-related ephemera sources [ and handwriting improvement ]
Owner
- Pen Collectors of America, NFP, Millbrae, CA, US
- Pen Collectors of America, NFP, Millbrae, CA, US
- Pen Collectors of America, NFP, Millbrae, CA, US
Prosecution history
- 06 Oct 2025 — NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF SEC. 8 - E-MAILED
- 06 Oct 2025 — REGISTERED - SEC. 8 (6-YR) ACCEPTED
- 06 Oct 2025 — CASE ASSIGNED TO POST REGISTRATION PARALEGAL
- 15 Jun 2025 — TEAS SECTION 8 RECEIVED
- 18 Dec 2023 — COURTESY REMINDER - SEC. 8 (6-YR) E-MAILED
- 18 Dec 2018 — REGISTERED-PRINCIPAL REGISTER
- 02 Oct 2018 — OFFICIAL GAZETTE PUBLICATION CONFIRMATION E-MAILED
- 02 Oct 2018 — PUBLISHED FOR OPPOSITION
- 12 Sept 2018 — NOTIFICATION OF NOTICE OF PUBLICATION E-MAILED
- 27 Aug 2018 — ASSIGNED TO LIE
- 16 Aug 2018 — APPROVED FOR PUB - PRINCIPAL REGISTER
- 16 Aug 2018 — EXAMINER'S AMENDMENT ENTERED
- 16 Aug 2018 — NOTIFICATION OF EXAMINERS AMENDMENT E-MAILED
- 16 Aug 2018 — EXAMINERS AMENDMENT E-MAILED
- 16 Aug 2018 — EXAMINERS AMENDMENT -WRITTEN