WORDCRYPT

What this record means

The record shows that WORDCRYPT is an abandoned service mark, filed by James Bradley Lucas as an individual on Oct 1 2015 and later abandoned on Nov 28 2016 because no Statement of Use was filed after the Notice of Allowance. The only listed offering is “Development of software for secure network operations” in International Class 042, so a similar name used for any kind of software‑security or network‑management service would be the closest area of concern based on this filing. The record does not give Lucas control over every possible use of the word WORDCRYPT, especially outside the narrow software‑development context. The prosecution history shows the application moved through approval, publication for opposition, issuance of a Notice of Allowance, and then abandonment when the required use statement was never submitted. No enforcement actions, oppositions, or cancellations appear in the supplied history. I'd treat this as a meaningful concern if you plan to market security‑related software under a similar name, because the abandoned filing still signals a prior claim in that specific tech field.