FLOWERING ONION

What this record means

The record shows that “FLOWERING ONION” is an abandoned application, not a live registration, and the owner listed is SPANGLER'S FLOUR MILLS INC. OF MT. JOY, a Pennsylvania corporation that filed the intent‑to‑use request on Aug 24 1995. The only goods shown are “batter and breading mixes used for cooking onions” in class 030, so a similar name would raise the closest record‑based concern if you were marketing comparable food mixes or related onion products. The record does not give the owner control over every use of the words “flowering” or “onion” in other contexts or for unrelated goods. There is no supplemental‑register activity; the application proceeded on the principal register and was ultimately refused, ending with an abandonment on Jun 17 1998 after a TTAB inter‑ partes decision. The prosecution history contains no oppositions, cancellations or other enforcement signals, so the supplied history shows none. I'd treat this as a meaningful concern if you plan to sell similar onion‑based mixes, because the abandoned filing still signals a prior claim in that niche.