Discovery Trademarks “Everybook”

August 2009: Discovery E-Book Filing Raises Eyebrows

Is Discovery Communications gearing up for a jump into the suddenly hot e-book space? A filing made public this week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office raises that possibility.

According to the filing, the Silver Spring-based media company applied in February for a patent on a product it describes as an “electronic book having electronic commerce features.”

And now in December 2009 it has a name …

Word Mark
EVERYBOOK

Goods and Services
IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Home and portable library system consisting of a portable communications apparatus integrating features of cable television, telephony and wireless communication to display and store literary text and visual works; computer operating software programs for use with said communications apparatus; audio and visual recordings on the subject of science, nature, history, adventure, technology, cultures, myths, magic, space aviation, wildlife and inventions; pre-recorded hard, floppy and optical disks on the subject of science, nature, history, adventure, technology, cultures, myths, magic, space aviation, wildlife and inventions

IC 016. US 002 005 022 023 029 037 038 050. G & S: Books and magazines on the subject of science, nature, history, adventure, technology, cultures, myths, magic, space aviation, wildlife and inventions

IC 038. US 100 101 104. G & S: Telecommunications services, namely, electronic data transmission of audio data, visual data and text data

IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: Entertainment services in the nature of television programming

Standard Characters Claimed

Mark Drawing Code
(4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK

Serial Number
77174476

Filing Date
May 7, 2007

Current Filing Basis
1B

Original Filing Basis
1B

Published for Opposition
December 8, 2009

Owner
(APPLICANT) DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, LLC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY DELAWARE ONE DISCOVERY PLACE SILVER SPRING MARYLAND 20910

Assignment Recorded
ASSIGNMENT RECORDED

Attorney of Record
Anthony V. Lupo

Type of Mark
TRADEMARK. SERVICE MARK

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