What this record means
The record shows that the mark “INVOICE ESCORT” is dead, having been abandoned because the applicant failed to respond to an Office action. The owner listed is The Vendor Exchange, LLC, a California limited liability company. The mark was filed on March 9, 2006 and was abandoned on March 23, 2007. It covered software that supports order capturing online, via wireless handheld devices, and on client‑server stand‑alone applications, specifically in class 009 for electrical and scientific apparatus. A similar name would raise the closest concern in the same software and electronic commerce space, since that is the only goods area the record lists. The record does not give the owner control over every use of the wording, only over the specific software services described. No enforcement activity appears in the supplied history. For someone looking at a similar name, the main risk is that the abandoned mark still shows a prior claim in that narrow software area, so caution is warranted.
Informational only - not legal advice.