MIDDLE-EARTH
Live / Registered — Registered (as of 27 Oct 2020)
What this means for you
Registered since 27 Oct 2020. 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 declaration of use was filed 24 Sept 2026 and is awaiting the USPTO's acceptance).
Record
- Serial number
- 87983293
- Registration number
- 6185610
- Mark type
- Word mark
- Filed
- 22 Dec 2017
- Published for opposition
- 20 Nov 2018
- Registered
- 27 Oct 2020
- Next maintenance filing
- §8 declaration of use, filed 24 Sept 2026 — awaiting the USPTO's acceptance
- Attorney of record
- Megan Martin
Goods and services
- Class 016 — Paper goods and printed matter: Maps, printed strategy guides for video games, manuals used for computer games and interactive games, note books
- Class 028 — Toys and sporting goods: Trading cards for games
Owner
- MIDDLE-EARTH ENTERPRISES, LLC, Livermore, CA, US
- The Saul Zaentz Company, Berkeley, CA, US
- The Saul Zaentz Company, Berkeley, CA, US
- The Saul Zaentz Company, Berkeley, CA, US
Prior registrations
Prosecution history
- 24 Sept 2026 — TEAS SECTION 8 & 15 RECEIVED
- 27 Oct 2025 — COURTESY REMINDER - SEC. 8 (6-YR) E-MAILED
- 03 Sept 2025 — TEAS CHANGE OF CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED
- 03 Sept 2025 — ATTORNEY/DOM.REP.REVOKED AND/OR APPOINTED
- 03 Sept 2025 — TEAS REVOKE/APP/CHANGE ADDR OF ATTY/DOM REP RECEIVED
- 03 Sept 2025 — APPLICANT/CORRESPONDENCE CHANGES (NON-RESPONSIVE) ENTERED
- 03 Sept 2025 — TEAS CHANGE OF OWNER ADDRESS RECEIVED
- 18 Sept 2023 — TEAS WITHDRAWAL OF ATTORNEY RECEIVED-FIRM RETAINS
- 18 Sept 2023 — TEAS CHANGE OF CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED
- 18 Sept 2023 — ATTORNEY/DOM.REP.REVOKED AND/OR APPOINTED
- 18 Sept 2023 — TEAS REVOKE/APP/CHANGE ADDR OF ATTY/DOM REP RECEIVED
- 18 Sept 2023 — APPLICANT/CORRESPONDENCE CHANGES (NON-RESPONSIVE) ENTERED
- 18 Sept 2023 — TEAS CHANGE OF OWNER ADDRESS RECEIVED
- 07 Dec 2022 — AUTOMATIC UPDATE OF ASSIGNMENT OF OWNERSHIP
- 27 Oct 2020 — REGISTERED-PRINCIPAL REGISTER