Get it in writing
The official USPTO status record for BECAUSE THE SAC AND FOX TRIBE OF THE MISSISSIPPI IN IOWA HAVE A UNIQUE LEGAL AND POLITICAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES, THIS IMAGE OF A MESKWAKI MAN FACING LEFT SCALP LOCK, BRAIDED, ROACH HEADDRESS WITH TWO BLACK TIPPED EAGLE FEATHERS WEARING BEAR CLAW NECKLACE WITH GREEN AND RED BACKGROUND IS THE UNIFICATION OF THESE COLOR SYMBOLIZES THE ABILITY OF THE MESKWAKI NATION TO APPRECIATE JOYS AND TRIBULATIONS OF LIFE COMBINED WITH THE CONVICTION THAT THE NATION WILL NOT ONLY SURVIVE, BUT ALSO PREVAIL; AND IS AN OFFICIAL SYMBOL OF TRIBAL GOVERNANCE SINCE 1979., serial 87373884, as a dated PDF. One price, one document, delivered in about a minute.
Trademark Status Report
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.
Serial 87373884 · Principal Register
Dead · Refused
Owner: Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa
Class 040 -
Filed
The record shows that the mark is dead and was refused; the owner is the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa. The mark was applied for as a service mark covering customized printing of company names and logos for promotional and advertising purposes on the goods of others, a service class 040. Because the mark is no longer active, it does not give the owner control over the wording in any other context. The only visible event in the history is the application entry on March 20, 2017, followed by the refusal on March 24, 2017, so there is no further maintenance or renewal to consider. No oppositions, cancellations, or court actions appear in the supplied record, so the history shows no enforcement activity. For someone looking to use a similar name, the closest concern would be in the same promotional printing services; outside that narrow scope the record offers no indication of protection.
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.