EMERALD CITIES

What this record means

The record shows that “EMERALD CITIES” is an abandoned service mark – the USPTO listed it as dead on Oct 23 2017 after the applicant, Sheri Jean Roese, failed to file a required Statement of Use or an extension after the Notice of Allowance was issued. The mark was limited to class 035 consulting services about environmentally friendly products such as solar‑reflective pavement and cool roofing, and to class 036 financial consulting and carbon‑offset financing related to green projects. A similar name would raise the closest record‑based concern if you were offering comparable sustainability consulting or financing services, because those are the exact areas the record covers. The filing does not give the owner control over every possible use of the words “emerald” or “cities” in unrelated fields. The prosecution history contains no refusals, amendments, or supplemental‑register activity, and there are no listed oppositions or cancellations, so the supplied history shows no enforcement actions. I'd treat this as a meaningful concern if you plan to operate in the same eco‑consulting or green‑finance space.