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The official USPTO status record for BECAUSE WINTER IS LONG AND LIFE IS SHORT, serial 73703014, as a dated PDF. One price, one document, delivered in about a minute.
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The USPTO's own status record for this mark, on one dated page.
- Current status with a plain-English verdict
- Owner, classes, filing basis, and every key date
- The mark as it appears on the federal record
- Every prosecution event, filing to today
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BECAUSE WINTER IS LONG AND LIFE IS SHORTSerial 73703014 · Principal Register
Dead · Cancelled
Owner: AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY
Class 042 - Scientific & Technology Services
Filed Dec 28, 1987
Registered Sep 20, 1988
The record shows that the mark “BECAUSE WINTER IS LONG AND LIFE IS SHORT” is a dead, cancelled registration on the Principal Register, owned by American Express Company. The mark covered mail‑order services for the sale of furs in class 042, a scientific and technology services class. A similar name would raise the closest concern in that same class and for the same type of service—mail‑order fur sales. The record does not give the owner control over every use of the wording; it only applies to the specific goods and services listed. The prosecution history shows the mark was registered in 1988 and cancelled in 1995 for failure to file a Section 8 declaration. No opposition, cancellation, or court action appears in the supplied history, so there is no visible enforcement signal. For someone considering a similar name, the cancelled status reduces the risk, but the specific class and service still present a potential concern.
Full event history, owner details, and verdict inside.
The way I'd use it, honestly, is as the thing you attach when a bank, a marketplace, or a co-founder asks "are we clear on the name". It answers in one page.