GRADING CHIP
Live / Applied — Non-final action mailed (as of 02 Sept 2026)
Now
Refused for now — an office action was mailed 02 Sept 2026.
A response is due by 02 Dec 2026; with no response the application is abandoned.
What this means for you
Not registered yet, but its 26 Nov 2025 filing date beats anything filed after it. If it registers, the owner can stop confusingly similar uses in the classes it covers.
Record
- Serial number
- 99518601
- Mark type
- Word mark
- Filed
- 26 Nov 2025
- Attorney of record
- Robert Morris
Goods and services
- Class 009 — Scientific and electric apparatus: Physically-protected near field communication (NFC) tags for displaying the grades for a collectibles, such as comic books, printed trading cards, printed magazines, printed publications, autographs, action figures, and toys that are stored within a hard shell protective case
- Class 035 — Advertising and business services: Retail store services featuring collectible item grade and authentication tags and security elements such as hologram tags and associated digital records and record verification
- Class 040 — Treatment of materials: Applying grade and authentication labels to collectibles in the nature of trading cards, comic books, autographs, action figures, and toys
- Class 042 — Scientific and technological services: Grading of collectibles, in the nature of trading cards, comic books, autographs, and action figures, and toys; Developing transparent and public voluntary grading standards and grading and authentication services utilizing the standards for collectibles, including: in the nature of trading cards, comic books, autographs, and action figures, and toys; Authentication in the field of collectibles in the nature of trading cards, comic books, autographs, action figures, and toys; Grading of collectibles in the nature of trading cards, comic books, autographs, action figures, and toys, featuring grading of components of the collectibles as well as grading of the collectibles overall; Grading of third party encapsulated and graded collectibles in the nature of trading cards, comic books, autographs, action figures, and toys; Authentication in the field of uncirculated and circulated, collectibles in the nature of trading cards, comic books, autographs, action figures, and toys; Authentication in the field of collectibles in the nature of trading cards, comic books, autographs, action figures, and toys featuring counterfeit detection, modification detection, and item completeness/incompleteness review
Owner
- Dynamics Inc., Cheswick, PA, US
Prosecution history
- 02 Sept 2026 — NOTIFICATION OF NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED
- 02 Sept 2026 — NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED
- 02 Sept 2026 — NON-FINAL ACTION WRITTEN
- 02 Aug 2026 — TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED
- 01 Aug 2026 — CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE
- 01 Aug 2026 — TEAS RESPONSE TO OFFICE ACTION RECEIVED
- 01 Aug 2026 — NOTICE OF REVIVAL - E-MAILED
- 01 Aug 2026 — PETITION TO REVIVE-GRANTED
- 01 Aug 2026 — TEAS PETITION TO REVIVE RECEIVED
- 22 Jul 2026 — ABANDONMENT NOTICE E-MAILED - FAILURE TO RESPOND
- 22 Jul 2026 — ABANDONMENT - FAILURE TO RESPOND OR LATE RESPONSE
- 08 Apr 2026 — NOTIFICATION OF NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED
- 08 Apr 2026 — NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED
- 08 Apr 2026 — NON-FINAL ACTION WRITTEN
- 31 Mar 2026 — ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER