WORDLINE

What this record means

The record shows that WORDLINE is a cancelled Principal Register service mark owned by LDB COMMUNICATION ET CONSEIL, a French limited‑liability company, and it is no longer live because the registrant failed to file a required Section 8 declaration, resulting in cancellation on Dec 2 1996. The registration covered video‑tape editing services (Class 040) and educational language services delivered through correspondence courses (Class 041), so a new name used in similar video‑editing or distance‑learning language offerings would raise the closest record‑based concern. The record does not give the owner control over every possible use of the word “WORDLINE” in unrelated fields. The prosecution history shows the mark was approved, published for opposition, registered in 1990, and later corrected under Section 7 before the eventual Section 8 cancellation; there is no indication of any opposition, cancellation proceeding, or other enforcement action in the supplied history. I'd treat this as a meaningful concern if you plan a mark in the same service areas, because the cancelled registration still reflects a prior claim to those specific services.