USPTO serial 97821990
MIFARE
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- Filing date
- Status date
- Registration date
- Jul 15, 2025
- Examiner
- CHOSID, ROBIN S
- Law office
- FILE REPOSITORY (FRANCONIA)
What this means
Status 700 means the trademark is registered and active on the Principal Register. You have nationwide rights for the listed goods and services and may use ®. Section 8 maintenance is due between years five and six. Calendar Section 8 between years five and six, and consider trademark monitoring.
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Owner
Eindhoven, NL
Eindhoven, NL
Eindhoven, NL
Attorney of record
The USPTO lists this attorney as the applicant's representative for correspondence on this application.
CYNTHIA R. ADWERE
Cynthia R. Adwere LAW OFFICE OF CYNTHIA R. ADWERE2625 MIDDLEFIELD ROAD, NO. 360PALO ALTO, CA 94306United StatesGoods and services
| Class | Description | Status | First use |
|---|---|---|---|
| 009 | Data processing equipment, data storage apparatus namely, data processors for scanning, reading, storing and interpreting electronic data contained on radio frequency identification (RFID) and near field communication (NFC) chips; microprocessors; interfaces for computers; integrated circuits (ICs), integrated circuit chips; semiconductors; smart cards, namely, blank smart cards; encoded smart cards containing programming used for public transit, payments, loyalty programs, hospitality, transportation, student identification cards, identification cards, membership cards, parking, event management, vehicle sharing, and access management, namely, access to certain areas, gaining access to buildings, gaining access to premises, and gaining access to vehicles; smart card integrated circuits, namely, blank integrated circuit cards; encoded integrated circuit cards containing programming used for public transit, payments, loyalty programs, hospitality, transportation, student identification cards, identification cards, membership cards, parking, event management, vehicle sharing, and access management, namely, access to certain areas, gaining access to buildings, gaining access to premises, and gaining access to vehicles; radio frequency identification (RFID) labels; radio frequency identification (RFID) tags; blank smart cards with integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) chips; encoded smart cards with integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) chips containing programming used for public transit, payments, loyalty programs, hospitality, transportation, student identification cards, identification cards, membership cards, parking, event management, vehicle sharing, and access management, namely, access to certain areas, gaining access to buildings, gaining access to premises, and gaining access to vehicles; computer hardware and downloadable software for creating, programming, controlling, encoding, scanning, reading and interpreting radio frequency identification (RFID) chips and tags; encoded integrated circuit cards containing programming used for public transit, payments, loyalty programs, hospitality, transportation, student identification cards, identification cards, membership cards, parking, event management, vehicle sharing, and access management, namely, access to certain areas, gaining access to buildings, gaining access to premises, and gaining access to vehicles; encoded contactless smart cards embedded with transponders, central processing units, cryptographic co-processors, analog logic, digital logic, and memory for use in public transit, payments, loyalty programs, hospitality, car access, electric vehicle charging, event management, and access management, namely, access to certain areas, gaining access to buildings, gaining access to premises, and gaining access to vehicles; blank dual interface smart cards embedded with transponders, central processing units, cryptographic co-processors, integrated circuits which use analog logic and digital logic, and memory; encoded dual interface smart cards embedded with transponders, central processing units, cryptographic co-processors, integrated circuits which use analog logic and digital logic, and memory for use for public transit, payments, and physical access management, namely, access to certain areas, gaining access to buildings, gaining access to premises, and gaining access to vehicles; dual interface integrated circuits that provide a link between contactless cards and contact cards; encoded contactless smart cards containing programming used for determining the fare to be paid by passengers who book their trip electronically; encoded contactless smart cards containing programming used for gaining access to certain areas, buildings, premises, and vehicles; RFID writers, namely devices that communicate with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and devices that can read and write data onto RFID tags and perform contactless transactions and operations between the reader and writer devices and smartcards or tag devices for wireless transmission of data to and from transponder chips; RFID readers for wireless transmission of data to and from transponder chips; RFID readers for wireless transmission of data to and from transponder chips downloadable computer programs for controlling transmission of data to and reading of data from transponder chips; electronic card readers combined with electronic data recorders for authenticating identity, controlling access to social and business events, managing events, ticketing, transit, tourism, hospitality, student cards, loyalty programs, payment, and access management, namely, access to certain areas, gaining access to buildings, gaining access to premises, and gaining access to vehicles; electronic wristbands intended to be used for cashless vending, transportation and club membership identification; computer hardware, downloadable software and computer peripherals used for access control and authentication purposes; electronic key fobs being remote control apparatus; downloadable cloud computing software for downloading payment information onto end user devices, namely, mobile phones and wearable devices, sold separately; cloud computing systems comprised of cloud computing hardware, namely, HSM (high security modules) which are accessed and used by cloud computing software, namely, hardware security appliance in the nature of a computer hardware security module (HSM) for encrypting sensitive data; downloadable software for cloud infrastructure for downloading virtual card information and virtual card data onto end user devices, namely, mobile phones and wearable devices; downloadable cloud computing platform software for use on mobile devices with near field communication (NFC) functionality to interact with smartcard integrated circuits and connect with backend cloud software services which provide and manage virtual cards and virtual card data remotely, containing software and software built by OEMs to emulate smartcard products, interact with smartcard products, and interact with cloud software service backend systems which provide and manage virtual cards and virtual card data remotely; downloadable cloud computing platform software for generating smartcard and virtual card encryption key material in a secure HSM module, namely, hardware security appliance in the nature of a computer hardware security module (HSM) for encrypting sensitive data, deploying virtual machines to a cloud computing platform, implementing and emulating smartcard functionality in software, personalizing smart cards, and securely generating data that is used to personalize and download data into smart cards; downloadable computer application software for providing cloud computing services; downloadable cloud based software solutions for managing digital credentials on mobile devices and wearable devices, namely, mobile phones and wearable devices supporting NFC-enabled mobile devices for fare payments made using mobile devices, transit ticketing using mobile devices, and smart card access; computer hardware, namely, secure access modules; downloadable interface software, namely, mobile device and wearable device interface software for virtual cards and virtual wallets; secure microprocessors; secure terminals for electronic transactions; downloadable software for facilitating secure financial transactions; SIM cards; downloadable computer software for the implementation of smartcards on mobile devices and wearable devices; downloadable software for security and risk management in respect of smartcard implementation on mobile devices and wearable devices; downloadable host card emulation (HCE) software for storing virtual smart card on mobile devices and wearable devices, namely, software that enables mobile devices and wearable devices to be used for making payments, accessing transit and credit and debit transactions at physical point-of-sale (POS) terminals; downloadable software embedded on a SE (Secure Element), namely, a secure integrated circuit for use in mobile and wearable device applications which facilitate virtual card storing on mobile devices and wearable devices | ACTIVE | Dec 31, 2002 |
| 042 | Computer programming services; installation, repair and maintenance of software for creating, programming, controlling, encoding, scanning, reading and interpreting RFID chips and tags, and of software for determining the fare to be paid by passengers with electronic travel-tickets; research, design and development services related to electronic, electrotechnical and electromagnetic modules, namely, transistors, analog logic, digital logic, electrotechnical parts and smartcards, parts and building elements, namely, structural parts for the forgoing, data processing machines, data storage apparatus, microprocessors, interfaces, namely, interfaces for data transfer inside an integrated circuit IC and interfaces for sharing data between cloud computing area (APIs), integrated circuits, chips, namely, semiconductor chips, semiconductors and blank and encoded smart cards, electronic controllers for smart cards, electronic controllers for RFID chips and tags; research, design and development services related to computer hardware and software for creating, programming, controlling, encoding, scanning, reading and interpreting RFID chips and tags; research, design and development services related to electronic apparatus, instruments and equipment in the nature of NFC reader devices, NFC verification and validation tools, integrated circuit development environments for analog design and digital design, and debugging tools for creating, programming, controlling, encoding, scanning, reading and interpreting RFID chips and tags, antennas for smart card integrated circuits for use with NFC interface; research, design and development services in the field of NFC (near field communications) apparatus, instruments and equipment, namely, electronic, electrotechnical and electromagnetic modules, namely, transistors, analog logic, digital logic, electrotechnical parts and smartcards, parts and building elements, namely, structural parts for the forgoing, and integrated circuits for NFC applications, electronic payment cards, data processing apparatus and computer software for determining the fare to be paid by passengers with electronic travel-tickets; research, design and development services related to structural parts for all the aforesaid goods; custom computer programming for others; custom programming in secure environment of computer hardware used for creating, programming, controlling, encoding, scanning, reading and interpreting RFID chips and tags, electronic apparatus, instruments and equipment for creating, programming, controlling, encoding, scanning, reading and interpreting RFID chips and tags, antennas for smart card integrated circuits for use with NFC interface for scanning, reading and interpreting RFID chips and tags; custom computer programming of NFC (near field communications) apparatus, instruments and equipment, including electronic, electrotechnical and electromagnetic modules, namely, transistors, analog logic, digital logic, electrotechnical parts and smartcards, structural parts for the foregoing and integrated circuits for near field communications applications, electronic payment cards, data processing apparatus and software for determining the fare to be paid by passengers with electronic travel-tickets; custom computer programming of structural parts for all the aforesaid goods; cloud computing, namely, providing virtual computer systems and virtual computer environments through cloud computing and cloud hosting provider services; cloud computing services, namely, providing hosted virtual computer environments through cloud computing; providing temporary use of non-downloadable cloud computing software for use service management for cloud platforms for maintaining service level for cloud service availability and response times; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for the implementation of virtual cards onto embedded secure integrated circuits for smartcards on mobile devices and wearable devices; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for security and risk management in respect of smartcard implementation of virtual cards onto embedded secure integrated circuits for on mobile devices and wearable devices; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for virtual card storing on mobile devices and wearable devices embedded on a HCE (Host Card Emulation), namely, software for securing a mobile phone such that it can be used to make credit or debit transactions at a physical point-of-sale (POS) terminals; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for virtual smart card storing on mobile devices and wearable device embedded on a SE (Secure Element), namely, a secure integrated circuit; advisory, consultancy and information services in relation to all the aforesaid services | ACTIVE | Feb 8, 2011 |
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Prosecution history
| Date | Code | Event | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 2025 | NRCC | NOTICE OF REGISTRATION CONFIRMATION EMAILED | — |
| Jul 15, 2025 | R.PR | REGISTERED-PRINCIPAL REGISTER | Your trademark is registered on the Principal Register — the strongest form of federal trademark protection. You may use the ® symbol for the covered goods and services. Maintenance filings (Section 8 and renewals) are required to keep the registration alive. |
| May 27, 2025 | NPUB | OFFICIAL GAZETTE PUBLICATION CONFIRMATION E-MAILED | — |
| May 27, 2025 | PUBO | PUBLISHED FOR OPPOSITION | Your mark was published in the USPTO Official Gazette for a 30-day opposition window. During that period, third parties who believe they would be harmed can file an opposition. If no opposition is filed, prosecution usually continues toward registration or a Notice of Allowance. |
| May 21, 2025 | NONP | NOTIFICATION OF NOTICE OF PUBLICATION E-MAILED | — |
| Apr 24, 2025 | EXPT | EXPARTE APPEAL TERMINATED | — |
| Apr 24, 2025 | CNSA | APPROVED FOR PUB - PRINCIPAL REGISTER | — |
| Apr 2, 2025 | DOCK | ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER | — |
| Feb 27, 2025 | ALIE | ASSIGNED TO LIE | — |
| Feb 26, 2025 | TEME | TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED | — |
| Feb 26, 2025 | CRFA | CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE | — |
| Feb 18, 2025 | ERFR | TEAS REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION RECEIVED | — |
| Feb 18, 2025 | EXPI | EX PARTE APPEAL-INSTITUTED | — |
| Feb 18, 2025 | JURT | JURISDICTION RESTORED TO EXAMINING ATTORNEY | — |
| Feb 18, 2025 | EXAF | EXPARTE APPEAL RECEIVED AT TTAB | — |
| Nov 6, 2024 | XELG | APPLICATION EXTENSION GRANTED/RECEIPT PROVIDED | — |
| Nov 6, 2024 | XELR | APPLICATION EXTENSION TO RESPONSE PERIOD - RECEIVED | — |
| Aug 19, 2024 | GNFN | NOTIFICATION OF FINAL REFUSAL EMAILED | — |
| Aug 19, 2024 | GNFR | FINAL REFUSAL E-MAILED | A final Office Action (final refusal) means the examining attorney is maintaining at least one refusal and your options are narrower. You can file a response addressing the refusal, appeal to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, or let the application abandon. |
| Aug 19, 2024 | CNFR | FINAL REFUSAL WRITTEN | A final Office Action (final refusal) means the examining attorney is maintaining at least one refusal and your options are narrower. You can file a response addressing the refusal, appeal to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, or let the application abandon. |
| Jul 9, 2024 | TEME | TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED | — |
| Jul 9, 2024 | CRFA | CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE | — |
| Jul 9, 2024 | ERSI | TEAS RESPONSE TO SUSPENSION INQUIRY RECEIVED | — |
| Apr 10, 2024 | GNS3 | NOTIFICATION OF LETTER OF SUSPENSION E-MAILED | — |
| Apr 10, 2024 | GNSL | LETTER OF SUSPENSION E-MAILED | — |
| Apr 10, 2024 | CNSL | SUSPENSION LETTER WRITTEN | — |
| Mar 12, 2024 | TEME | TEAS/EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE ENTERED | — |
| Mar 12, 2024 | CRFA | CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED IN LAW OFFICE | — |
| Mar 12, 2024 | TROA | TEAS RESPONSE TO OFFICE ACTION RECEIVED | This event means the applicant filed a response to a USPTO Office Action — typically arguments, amendments, or evidence addressing the examiner's objections. The USPTO will review the response and either allow the mark to proceed or issue another action. |
| Dec 12, 2023 | GNRN | NOTIFICATION OF NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED | A non-final Office Action means the USPTO examining attorney has raised at least one issue with your trademark application but has not made a final decision. You usually have three months to respond with arguments, amendments, or evidence. Missing the deadline can abandon the application. |
| Dec 12, 2023 | GNRT | NON-FINAL ACTION E-MAILED | A non-final Office Action means the USPTO examining attorney has raised at least one issue with your trademark application but has not made a final decision. You usually have three months to respond with arguments, amendments, or evidence. Missing the deadline can abandon the application. |
| Dec 12, 2023 | CNRT | NON-FINAL ACTION WRITTEN | A non-final Office Action means the USPTO examining attorney has raised at least one issue with your trademark application but has not made a final decision. You usually have three months to respond with arguments, amendments, or evidence. Missing the deadline can abandon the application. |
| Dec 1, 2023 | DOCK | ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER | — |
| Mar 23, 2023 | NWOS | NEW APPLICATION OFFICE SUPPLIED DATA ENTERED | — |
| Mar 7, 2023 | NWAP | NEW APPLICATION ENTERED | — |