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Live / Registered — Registered (as of 30 Dec 2025)
What this means for you
Registered since 30 Dec 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 30 Dec 2031: the §8 declaration of use).
Record
- Serial number
- 98647632
- Registration number
- 8088693
- Mark type
- Design + words
- Filed
- 14 Jul 2024
- Published for opposition
- 04 Mar 2025
- Registered
- 30 Dec 2025
- Next maintenance filing
- §8 declaration of use, due by 30 Dec 2031 (grace period to 30 Jun 2032)
- Attorney of record
- Stephen Prince
Goods and services
- Class 042 — Scientific and technological services: Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for obtaining and verifying personal and professional references, enhancing the verification process of references, combining the advocacy element of personal endorsements with the thoroughness of background checks, and empowering both applicants and organizations to understand potential collaborators better
Owner
- Background Investigation Bureau, LLC, Huntersville, NC, US
- Background Investigation Bureau, LLC, Huntersville, NC, US
- Background Investigation Bureau, LLC, Huntersville, NC, US
Prosecution history
- 30 Dec 2025 — NOTICE OF REGISTRATION CONFIRMATION EMAILED
- 30 Dec 2025 — REGISTERED-PRINCIPAL REGISTER
- 11 Dec 2025 — NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF STATEMENT OF USE E-MAILED
- 11 Dec 2025 — ALLOWED PRINCIPAL REGISTER - SOU ACCEPTED
- 25 Nov 2025 — STATEMENT OF USE PROCESSING COMPLETE
- 05 Jun 2025 — USE AMENDMENT FILED
- 25 Nov 2025 — CASE ASSIGNED TO INTENT TO USE PARALEGAL
- 05 Jun 2025 — TEAS STATEMENT OF USE RECEIVED
- 29 Apr 2025 — NOA E-MAILED - SOU REQUIRED FROM APPLICANT
- 04 Mar 2025 — PUBLISHED FOR OPPOSITION
- 04 Mar 2025 — OFFICIAL GAZETTE PUBLICATION CONFIRMATION E-MAILED
- 26 Feb 2025 — NOTIFICATION OF NOTICE OF PUBLICATION E-MAILED
- 11 Feb 2025 — APPROVED FOR PUB - PRINCIPAL REGISTER
- 05 Feb 2025 — ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER
- 04 Feb 2025 — NOTICE OF DESIGN SEARCH CODE E-MAILED