What this record means
The record shows that the mark “APPLE” is dead and cancelled because the registrant, John Middleton Co., a limited liability company organized in Pennsylvania, failed to file a Section 8 declaration. The mark was registered on June 26, 1973 for class 034, which covers smoking tobacco, and the last status event was the cancellation on January 5, 2024. Because the mark was on the Principal Register, the cancellation means the owner no longer has exclusive rights to that name for those goods. The record does not give the owner control over any other uses of the word “APPLE.” No enforcement actions, oppositions, or cancellations after publication appear in the supplied history, so the supplied history shows no visible enforcement signals. If you are thinking of using a similar name for tobacco or related products, this record suggests a close concern, but for other goods the risk is farther from the specific scope shown.
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