PTO Grants UHDA Petition to ‘Revive’ Mobile HDR Premium Trademark Application

The Patent and Trademark Office granted the UHD Alliance’s petition to “revive” the group's application to register the Mobile HDR Premium logo as a certification mark for qualifying smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, said the agency in a Wednesday notice. PTO declared the application dead in late December after an agency examiner rejected it for several flaws in May and the alliance failed to respond to the rejection by the six-month deadline (see 1801140001). The alliance “has firsthand knowledge that the failure to respond to the Office Action by the specified deadline was unintentional,” said the group's Tuesday petition. Despite PTO’s abandonment of the application, alliance President Mike Fidler said his group has “absolutely no intention” of ditching the Mobile HDR Premium logo (see 1801180031). Mobile World Congress (MWC) opens Feb. 26 in Barcelona, where Fidler told us Thursday the alliance plans to promote the logo, having unveiled it officially for the first time at last year’s MWC (see 1702280045).