What this record means
The record shows that the mark “FAST WEB FINANCIAL AID SEARCH THROUGH THE WEB” is dead and was abandoned by Student Services, Inc. The abandoned application was for a service mark in class 036, covering software that allows users to enter a program through the World Wide Web to perform financial aid searches. Because the mark was never registered, it does not give the owner control over every use of the wording, but the specific description of a web‑based financial aid search software creates the closest area of concern for anyone using a similar name for a comparable service. The prosecution history indicates that the examiner mailed a non‑final action on November 20, 1995, and the applicant failed to respond, leading to abandonment on August 28, 1996. No enforcement activity appears in the supplied history. For someone considering a similar name, the record suggests a meaningful risk of confusion if the new use is in the same software‑based financial aid search space.
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