US Patent and Trademark Office Awards InterNACHI a new Federal Certification Mark!

[Scott Patterson]

Originally Posted by gromicko

Scott, the Mark was advertised and the period of opposition is over.

I did not know that. I was going off of what was on the USPTO site. Is says that it was published for opposition on Jan 15, 2008. Not knowing all of the ins and outs of the trademarking world, I would have thought that this would be the start of the notification time.

After reading the rules on the USPTO site I see that opposition must be filed within 30 days of the publish date and then it can proceed up to 180 days. It also has an appeal process that can be used after that period I think they call it a "timeless" period.

Anyway, it is what it is. Congratulations on getting your trademark I'm sure it will useful.

[Nick Gromicko]

True. Oppositions can go on for what seems to be forever. ASHI has yet to be able to get their "ASHI Experience" application approved as it infringes on our already fully registered "Hi Experience." We offered to sell ASHI the mark so that they could trademark theirs but ASHI turned us down despite our offer being very reasonable. I don't think they have the spare cash to buy it from us.

[Nick Gromicko]

Hi Experience BTW, is the name of our advanced online HI-DEF network we are launching http://www.nachi.org/inspectorchannel.htm

[Barry A. Saugen]

Great work Nick. Thanks again.