RAY BANGS

What this record means

The record shows that the application for “RAY BANGS” filed by Raymond Jordan is dead, having been abandoned on July 21 2005 after the applicant failed to respond to an Office action, and there is no active registration. The goods listed are limited to clothing and related accessories in International Class 025 – items such as shirts, jackets, jeans, shoes, hats and other apparel – and the first use in commerce was July 10 1997. Because the protection is confined to those apparel items, a similar name used for, say, food, software or services would be farther from the scope shown here, though the record does not prevent any other use of the words “Ray Bangs” in unrelated fields. The prosecution history notes a non‑final action in December 2004 and the abandonment notice in July 2005, which are the latest meaningful status events, and no opposition, cancellation or court activity appears in the file. I'd treat this as a moderate concern if you plan to market clothing under a comparable name, since the abandoned application still signals a prior claim in that product area.