FUN

What this record means

The record shows the mark “FUN” is cancelled, so it is not a live registration, and the owner listed is Kalimar Inc., a corporation organized in Missouri. The registration covered only Class 009 goods – photographic equipment such as cameras, optical equipment like binoculars, and direction‑indicating equipment such as compasses – with a first use date of April 1996 and a use‑in‑commerce date of October 14 1997. Because the protection was limited to those specific types of equipment, a similar name used for unrelated products would create the closest record‑based concern in the same class of electrical and scientific apparatus, but the record does not give Kalimar control over every use of the word “FUN” in other contexts. The prosecution history shows the mark was allowed on the Principal Register in 1998 and later cancelled for failure to file a Section 8 declaration, with the cancellation dated January 8 2005 as the most recent meaningful status event. No oppositions, cancellations by third parties, or court actions appear in the supplied history, so there are no visible enforcement signals. I'd treat this as a moderate concern if you plan to market cameras or similar gear under a name that sounds like “FUN,” but the risk drops sharply for unrelated goods.