THE BLACK MERMAID
Live / Registered — Registered (as of 09 Sept 2025)
What this means for you
Registered since 09 Sept 2025. 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 09 Sept 2031: the §8 declaration of use).
Record
- Serial number
- 97613435
- Registration number
- 7940564
- Mark type
- Word mark
- Filed
- 29 Sept 2022
- Published for opposition
- 22 Oct 2024
- Registered
- 09 Sept 2025
- Next maintenance filing
- §8 declaration of use, due by 09 Sept 2031 (grace period to 09 Mar 2032)
Goods and services
- Class 041 — Education and entertainment services: Production of musical sound recordings and audio-visual recordings featuring music and musical based entertainment.
Owner
- Royalty Is Black, Baltimore, MD, US
- Royalty Is Black, Baltimore, MD, US
- Royalty Is Black, Baltimore, MD, US
Prosecution history
- 09 Sept 2025 — NOTICE OF REGISTRATION CONFIRMATION EMAILED
- 09 Sept 2025 — REGISTERED-PRINCIPAL REGISTER
- 21 Aug 2025 — NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF STATEMENT OF USE E-MAILED
- 21 Aug 2025 — ALLOWED PRINCIPAL REGISTER - SOU ACCEPTED
- 21 Aug 2025 — STATEMENT OF USE PROCESSING COMPLETE
- 16 Dec 2024 — USE AMENDMENT FILED
- 17 Aug 2025 — CASE ASSIGNED TO INTENT TO USE PARALEGAL
- 16 Dec 2024 — TEAS STATEMENT OF USE RECEIVED
- 03 Dec 2024 — NOA E-MAILED - SOU REQUIRED FROM APPLICANT
- 22 Oct 2024 — OFFICIAL GAZETTE PUBLICATION CONFIRMATION E-MAILED
- 22 Oct 2024 — PUBLISHED FOR OPPOSITION
- 02 Oct 2024 — NOTIFICATION OF NOTICE OF PUBLICATION E-MAILED
- 13 Sept 2024 — APPROVED FOR PUB - PRINCIPAL REGISTER
- 05 Aug 2024 — TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED
- 05 Aug 2024 — CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE