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BLACK SHEEPSerial 98332175 · Principal Register
Dead · Refused
Owner: VanDrake Investments, LLC
Class 025 - Clothing
Class 043 - Restaurant & Hotel Services
Filed Dec 27, 2023
The record shows that the “BLACK SHEEP” mark, owned by VanDrake Investments, LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company, is dead after being abandoned on Nov 20 2024 because the applicant failed to respond to an Office action. The application covered clothing (footwear, hats, hoodies, pants, shirts, shorts, athletic tops and bottoms, sweat‑pants, T‑shirts) in class 025 and restaurant and food‑preparation services, including a website providing recipe information, in class 043. A similar name used for apparel or restaurant‑related services would raise the closest record‑based concern, while uses outside those categories are farther from the listed scope but not automatically free of risk. The prosecution history shows only the filing, examiner assignment, a non‑final action in August 2024 and the abandonment notice in November 2024; there is no indication of any opposition, cancellation proceeding, or other enforcement activity. I'd treat this as a meaningful concern if you plan a name in the same clothing or food‑service space, because the abandoned application still signals that the USPTO examined a similar mark for those goods.
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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.