SHIRE
Live / Registered — Registered and renewed (as of 02 Jun 2025)
What this means for you
Registered since 06 Jan 2015. 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 06 Jan 2035: the §8 & §9 renewal).
Record
- Serial number
- 85509588
- Registration number
- 4667909
- Mark type
- Word mark
- Filed
- 05 Jan 2012
- Published for opposition
- 06 Mar 2012
- Registered
- 06 Jan 2015
- Current term from
- 06 Jan 2025
- Next maintenance filing
- §8 & §9 renewal, due by 06 Jan 2035 (grace period to 06 Jul 2035)
- Attorney of record
- Megan Martin
Goods and services
- Class 009 — Scientific and electric apparatus: Decorative magnets
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
Board proceedings on this mark
- Opposition No. 91205062 — Middle-Earth Network, LLC v. The Saul Zaentz Company, filed 04 May 2012 (Terminated)
- Extension of Time to Oppose No. 85509588 — Mark Raymond Ostley & Middle-Earth Network, LLC v. The Saul Zaentz Company, filed 05 Apr 2012 (Terminated)
The owner also pleads this mark in 1 other Board proceeding.
Prosecution history
- 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
- 02 Jun 2025 — NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF SEC. 8 & 9 - E-MAILED
- 02 Jun 2025 — REGISTERED AND RENEWED (FIRST RENEWAL - 10 YRS)
- 02 Jun 2025 — REGISTERED - SEC. 8 (10-YR) ACCEPTED/SEC. 9 GRANTED
- 02 Jun 2025 — CASE ASSIGNED TO POST REGISTRATION PARALEGAL
- 23 Dec 2024 — TEAS SECTION 8 & 9 RECEIVED
- 06 Jan 2024 — COURTESY REMINDER - SEC. 8 (10-YR)/SEC. 9 E-MAILED
- 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