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The official USPTO status record for FOR THE LOVE OF AUTOMOBILES, serial 76543666, 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
- Source-cited with the exact retrieval date
Built from the USPTO's TSDR record. Assignment chain of title and TTAB proceeding files sit in separate USPTO systems and are not included.
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FOR THE LOVE OF AUTOMOBILESSerial 76543666 · Principal Register
Dead · Refused
Owner: Volkswagen of America, Inc.
Class 012 -
Class 025 - Clothing
Class 028 -
Class 037 -
Filed Aug 28, 2003
The record shows that the mark “FOR THE LOVE OF AUTOMOBILES” is dead, having been abandoned after a decision by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. The owner listed is Volkswagen of America, Inc., a corporation organized in New Jersey. The abandoned goods cover a wide range of vehicles and related parts, including automobiles, trucks, vans, sport utility vehicles, trailers, buses, trains, bicycles, motorcycles, snowmobiles, airplanes, boats, hot‑air balloons, and various structural and replacement parts for all of those goods. A similar name used for any of those vehicle types or parts would raise the closest record‑based concern. The record does not give the owner control over every use of the wording, only over the specific goods listed. No enforcement activity such as oppositions or cancellations appears in the supplied history. The last meaningful event was the abandonment decision in 2005. For someone considering a similar name, the risk is that use in the vehicle or parts market could be seen as infringing the abandoned mark’s scope.
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.