FUN WITH PHONICS

What this record means

The record shows that “FUN WITH PHONICS” is an abandoned application – the USPTO marked it dead on May 24 2004 after the applicant failed to answer an Office action, and no later filings have revived it; the owner listed is Fun with Phonics, Inc., a California corporation. The filing covered only class 016, specifically educational phonics materials such as printed alphabet cards, word cards, reading books, posters, learning boards and CD‑ROMs that teach letter recognition and reading. Because the protection was limited to those paper‑goods and printed‑matter items, a similar name used for unrelated products would be a farther concern, though the record does not give the owner any blanket control over the words themselves. The prosecution history shows a series of Office‑action responses ending in a final refusal and abandonment, but there are no entries for oppositions, cancellations or court actions, so the supplied history shows no enforcement activity. I'd treat this as a meaningful concern if you plan to market comparable educational print materials under a similar name.