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Live / Registered — Registered (as of 21 Oct 2025)
What this means for you
Registered since 21 Oct 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 21 Oct 2031: the §8 declaration of use).
Record
- Serial number
- 98029611
- Registration number
- 7995542
- Mark type
- Slogan / phrase
- Filed
- 06 Jun 2023
- Published for opposition
- 09 Apr 2024
- Registered
- 21 Oct 2025
- Next maintenance filing
- §8 declaration of use, due by 21 Oct 2031 (grace period to 21 Apr 2032)
- Attorney of record
- J. Dickson Phillips III
Goods and services
- Class 035 — Advertising and business services: Business development services; Promoting economic development in the State of North Carolina
Owner
- Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, Inc., Raleigh, NC, US
- Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, Inc., Raleigh, NC, US
- Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, Inc., Raleigh, NC, US
Prosecution history
- 21 Oct 2025 — NOTICE OF REGISTRATION CONFIRMATION EMAILED
- 21 Oct 2025 — REGISTERED-PRINCIPAL REGISTER
- 30 Sept 2025 — NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF STATEMENT OF USE E-MAILED
- 30 Sept 2025 — ALLOWED PRINCIPAL REGISTER - SOU ACCEPTED
- 27 Sept 2025 — NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF EXTENSION REQUEST E-MAILED
- 26 Sept 2025 — STATEMENT OF USE PROCESSING COMPLETE
- 08 May 2025 — USE AMENDMENT FILED
- 26 Sept 2025 — SOU EXTENSION 2 GRANTED
- 07 May 2025 — SOU EXTENSION 2 FILED
- 26 Sept 2025 — CASE ASSIGNED TO INTENT TO USE PARALEGAL
- 08 May 2025 — SOU TEAS EXTENSION RECEIVED
- 08 May 2025 — TEAS STATEMENT OF USE RECEIVED
- 03 Mar 2025 — NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF EXTENSION REQUEST E-MAILED
- 04 Dec 2024 — SOU EXTENSION 1 GRANTED
- 03 Dec 2024 — SOU EXTENSION 1 FILED